Archeologists believe the Great Sphinx of Giza doesn't represent a mythological creature but an ancient pharaoh.

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Author Oscar Wilde's gravesite is a big draw, in part because of the castrated funerary statue of a flying sphinx that adorns ...

The white stone embankment features a narrow gate decorated with sphinx statues. Adding to its imposing visual impact, a portion of the city’s protective wall ran across the top. On a clear day ...

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At the heart of this revival is a gargantuan glass-and-stone sphinx that looks out to the ... that gigantic spider-sculpture by French-American artist Louise Bourgeois. The car pulls up into ...

He filled the villa’s lush, secluded gardens with Roman statues, a stone sphinx and a carved Medusa head, most of which had to be carried up the 800 or so steps from the main harbor by mule.

On the hill behind the Sphinx, there is a small wooden structure with a winch you can rappel down with your whip. The relic is by a statue near ... delivering all the stone stelae.

But he also noticed the half-buried statue of a sphinx, and probing further he found ... from simple wood boxes to painted coffins and stone sarcophagi, suggests that individuals from across ...

This includes projects like reinforcing the walls, treating the stone facades ... monuments are as instantly recognizable as the Great Sphinx of Giza—and few have faced as many challenges.