W hat’s the best thing about riddles? They can be about literally anything—from pirates and planets to animals and even ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza has stood guard over the desert for thousands of years. Carved from limestone and towering beside the pyramids, it remains a powerful symbol of ancient ingenuity.

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Two contestants face off, answering ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics for a chance to solve today's Riddle of the Sphinx. "My job is pretend but my work is real. What do I do?" Play along at home and ...

The most surreal moment in any interview with one of Donald Trump’s allies in Congress is when they’re asked who won the 2020 election. A question that any reasonably well-informed 5-year-old ...

The most surreal moment in any interview with one of Donald Trump’s allies in Congress is when they’re asked who won the 2020 election. A question that any reasonably well-informed 5-year-old could ...

In 1950, on the shore of Lake Edward in what is now the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a Belgian geologist named Jean de Heinzelin unearthed what may be the oldest known puzzle.At a glance it seems ...

Whatever the Ishango bone’s true nature, the bona fide granddaddy of all puzzles is the Sphinx’s Riddle, best known from Oedipus Rex, a tragic play by the Greek poet Sophocles.In this story, the ...

The myth of the Sphinx is one of the oldest as some versions of its legends date as back as 9,500 B.C. It’s best known, though, from the great statues of Egypt. There it is usually a lion with a man’s ...

Art History ‘Oedipus and the Sphinx’ Sensationalized Paris. Here Are 3 Things to Know About the Masterpiece. Gustave Moreau wanted to create a sensation, and he succeeded with this bold ...

“L’enigme,” by Ferdinand Faivre. Credit: Ipipipourax /Wikimedia Commons /CC BY-SA 3.0 However, across the Mediterranean, the Ancient Greek playwright Sophocles, in his tragic play Oedipus Rex, ...