The Great Sphinx is believed to be a manifestation of the sun god, built to protect the pyramids around 2500 B.C., during the 4th dynasty, along with the Great Pyramids of Giza.

A tiny version of one of Egypt’s most famous historic carvings is the nation’s latest—and most adorable—discovery, with archaeologists unearthing a miniature sphinx. The diminutive Roman ...

A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.

A new sphinx-like statue has been discovered in Egypt – but this one is thought to be Roman.. The smiling sculpture and the remains of a shrine were found during an excavation mission in Qena, a ...

For decades, it’s been theorized the Great Sphinx of Giza may have originally been a lion-shaped natural landform that ancient Egyptians modified to form the stone-faced feline. A new study from ...

The sphinx has a "slight smile," according to archaeologist Mamdouh Al-Damati. Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Archaeologists have discovered a small, Roman-era sphinx statue, Egypt ...