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 limestone ...

It’s known from hieroglyphic texts that Khafre’s father, Khufu, built the 481-foot-tall Great Pyramid, a quarter mile from where the Sphinx would later be built. Khafre, following a tough act, ...

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon (2023), his latest feature film—which has been called his “finest since Gladiator”—was released yesterday following its November 14 premiere in Paris. The film includes one of ...

The great Sphinx of Egypt, one of the world’s most famous and enigmatic monuments, may be thousands of years older than archaeologists have believed, says Boston University geologist Robert Schoch, ...

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 ...

Google has taken us on virtual tours of ancient monuments in Mexico, India, Italy, Jordan — and now it's Egypt's turn for the panoramic treatment of archaeological sites. This week, Google unveiled ...

The Sphinx and the historical site of the Giza Pyramids are illuminated with blue light, as part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the United Nations, on Saturday, Oct. 24, 2015 ...

09:55, Fri, Nov 6, 2020 Updated: 20:42, Fri, Nov 6, 2020 The Great Sphinx is a limestone statue of a mythical creature with the body of a lion and the head of a human. It stands on the Giza Plateau on ...

New water pumping system at Giza Plateau has ecologists worried about possible damage to Egypt's best-known historical monuments One month ago, Giza's antiquities inspectorate installed a new system ...

Recently, in the Taminqagan Desert Scenic Area of Kulun Banner, Tongliao City, Inner Mongolia, the appearance of replicas of the Egyptian Sphinx and pyramids has sparked public interest. Set against ...