Archaeologists have discovered a stunning sphinx statue at an ancient temple in southern Egypt. The sandstone statue was discovered during a project to reduce groundwater at Kom Ombo temple in Aswan.

The Sphinx Temple at Giza is built from enormous limestone blocks weighing dozens of tons, fitted together with remarkable precision. Some researchers believe the structure may conceal hidden chambers ...

A famous theory says the blocks of the Sphinx Temple came directly from the quarry cut around the Great Sphinx. If true, it would strongly support a Fourth Dynasty date for both monument and temple.

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a small sphinx beside the Dendera Temple in Qena, Egypt. The Roman-era sphinx, much smaller than its monumental ...

Some amazing archeological finds involve daring adventures into hidden tombs. Others – as is the case with the discovery of a beautiful new sphinx in Egypt – simply involve a spot of drainage. The ...

CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian archaeologists draining water from a temple in the southern city of Aswan have uncovered a sandstone sphinx likely dating to the Ptolemaic era, the antiquities ministry said ...

When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. During one of his trances, Cayce, who died in 1945, saw that ...

It is thought the Roman emperor Claudius could have inspired work found in the temple of Dendera Archaeologists have unearthed a sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in ...

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