Towering near the pyramids, this monumental limestone statue continues to inspire fascination and debate, as questions about ...

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 ...

Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.

Here, you will see a Trojan horse and next to it, a Sphinx statue. Turn your back to the Sphinx statue and look north. There ...

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For years, archaeologists have been fascinated by the statue with a lion's body and human head. To discover the mysteries of the Sphinx, the team go inside the magnificent monument.