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.

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This head of a sphinx statue shows Ramesses II, a ruler who expanded Egypt's empire. Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered ...

The famous vertical weathering patterns on the Sphinx enclosure walls have long been cited as proof the monument predates ...

The University of Pennsylvania has moved its 25,000-pound Sphinx. The move required months of planning and a huge team of people to safely accomplish the feat. The Sphinx is now in Penn Museum's Main ...

New sphinx: Egyptian archeologists have uncovered a new sphinx in Kom Ombo, an ancient temple near the country's southern city of Aswan. The sphinx is believed to be older than 2,000 years. Kom Ombo: ...

After this weekend, it will be years before visitors to the Penn Museum in Philadelphia will be able to see its ancient sphinx. The Lower Egyptian gallery of the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology ...

In ancient Egypt, what was the Sphinx all about? – Effie, age 8, New Plymouth, New Zealand. One of the most mysterious and iconic monuments of ancient Egypt is the Great Sphinx of Giza. You’ve ...

After years of being washed, perfumed and fed in ancient Egypt, the statue of a revered Egyptian deity was given a proper burial with other "dead" statues more than 2,000 years ago, a new study finds.

Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...