The Sphinx, which embodies the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh, is believed to be the head of Khafre and his guardian spirit for his entire burial complex. Carved from the natural ...
The most enigmatic of sculptures, the Sphinx was carved from a single block of limestone left over in the quarry used to build the Pyramids. Scholars believe it was sculpted about 4,600 years ago ...
The Sphinx of Taharqo, in its calculated mixture ... This brief Sudanese conquest of Egypt is now very much a forgotten history. The official narrative of Egypt underplayed the Kushite disruption ...
Join MUFON for a mind-bending afternoon with Robert E. Redding, retired cross-country truck driver and author of the ...
Among these is a giant sphinx who asks Harry this riddle: First think of the person who lives in disguise, Who deals in secrets and tells naught but lies. Next, tell me what's always the last ...
A once-permanent patch of snow in the Highlands has melted for the fourth year in a row – for the first time in recorded ...
2017 The sands of time that make up the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes recently gave up a new visage of the region’s connection to the Golden Age of moviemaking -- a 300-pound plaster sphinx head.
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 ...