The Great Sphinx of Giza has stood guard over the desert for thousands of years. Carved from limestone and towering beside ...

(Who was Egypt's first pharaoh?) The Sphinx’s head has a royal look and bears some traditional symbols of ancient Egypt’s monarchy. It wears the nemes, a cloth headdress worn by Egyptian pharaohs.

It's located about seven miles west of the Nile River in Upper Egypt, some 270 miles south of Cairo. The ram skulls were found ... first," Dr. Sameh Iskander, head of the ISAW mission, told ...

Archaeologists working in southern Egypt have unearthed a statute ... of this basin that the researchers uncovered the sphinx statue, the head of which is depicted adorned with a “nemes ...

Scientists claim they have finally figured out how, exactly, the Great Sphinx was built in Egypt more than 4,500 ... with harder material becoming the “head” of the lion and other features.

The Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt, a massive structure carved from a single rock, has long fascinated visitors and experts alike. While many believed that the imposing statue, with its human head ...

He dropped out of school, began hitchhiking and ended up in Virginia Beach, where he sought out Cayce’s son, Hugh Lynn, the head of ... between the Sphinx’s paws, the Egyptian prince Thutmose ...

A limestone Sphinx statue ... that has the head of a human woman, and a lion’s body. It asks riddles and those who fail to answer correctly are killed. However, in Egyptian mythology, the ...

A new sphinx-like statue has ... It also wore a nemes on its head – the striped cloth headdress traditionally worn by pharaohs of ancient Egypt, with a cobra-shaped end or “uraeus.” ...

At least 2,000 mummified ram heads dating from the Ptolemaic period ... of Ramses II in the ancient city of Abydos in southern Egypt, antiquities officials said on Saturday. Mummified ewes ...