There’s an air of ancient Egypt in Hell’s Kitchen, as passersby stop to watch a local artist carve a statue of a sphinx on ...

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 Romanian sphinx is an archaeological find. It was discovered amid the ruins of a 19th-century Roman military camp in Potaissa. Although the statue disappeared in 1848, it continuously ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a statue of a sphinx while draining water from the pharaonic temple of Kom Ombo near the southern city of Aswan. The antiquities ministry said the statue of ...

Khafre may be best known for his statues, and most famous among them is, of course, the Sphinx. Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass write of Khafre: "He was, after all, perhaps the greatest maker of ...

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A 3-year-old Golden American pit bull has been returned to her family by Garfield Heights Police Saturday morning.

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 ...

The couple bought them at a country house sale for about £300 and thought they were 19th Century models A pair of stone sphinx statues that a couple bought for £300 and put in their garden for ...

Archeologists discovered two colossal sphinx statues while restoring the ancient Egyptian funerary temple of King Amenhotep III, according to the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities.