A previously unknown statue of a sphinx has been discovered in Egypt, the general director of Luxor Antiquities, Mohamed Abdel Aziz, announced on Sunday. Construction workers upgrading the historic Al ...

Fresh radar work on the Giza Plateau is reviving one of archaeology’s most persistent questions: what, if anything, lies hidden beneath the Great Sphinx. New subsurface scans point to a void beneath ...

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The Sphinx in Egypt might have originally had the face of a lion, it is claimed. And it could be much older than previously thought, investigations led by a British geologist suggest. Egyptologists ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt has finally closed its eyes after staring down armies, royals, archaeologists, visitors, and tourists over the centuries — at least according to extremely incorrect ...

It's possible that wind erosion made a rock feature in ancient Egypt look something like a sphinx, and then the Egyptians further refined it into the iconic monument. When you purchase through links ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza, a symbol of ancient Egyptian kingship, sparks debate regarding its origins. While most historians attribute its construction to Pharaoh Khafre around 2575-2465 BCE, some ...

One of Cairo's must-see attractions is the Great Sphinx, the world's oldest monumental sculpture. Situated by the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx impresses with its size – it measures 66 feet high ...

The Sphinx riddles comprise one of the most complex challenges in Dragon’s Dogma 2, but are worth spending the time to solve. Though the quest for the Sphinx riddles (“A Game of Wits”) is an ordeal ...

What becomes a legend most? After two years studying the Renaissance masters in Italy and five years back home in Paris, Gustave Moreau presented his answer with Oedipus and the Sphinx (1864). A work ...

When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. During one of his trances, Cayce, who died in 1945, saw that ...