If you see one sphinx, you’ve seen ’em all, right? Maybe not. Most folks are somewhat familiar with the Egyptian Sphinx, by photograph or personal viewing. It’s a creature with a … ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza, an emblem of ancient mysticism and architectural grandeur, has stood guard over the Giza plateau for millennia. Towering against the backdrop of the pyramids, this colossal ...

Much less commonly known than the Egyptian Sphinx was the Greek Sphinx. According to Greek mythology, a half-human, half-animal creature, not merely a statue, but a living, breathing being, was ...

The newly revealed sphinx head was missing part of its nose, but was otherwise quite intact. It was found beyond the floor mosaic, in the fourth chamber of the tomb, according to the Greek ...

Greek Sphinx vessel, dated about 470–450 B.C.E. Pottery rhyton in the form of a seated sphinx, attributed to The Sotades Painter, Greece, about 470–450 B.C.E. Courtesy of the British Museum.

SCIENTISTS have discovered the biggest burial site in Greek history that dates back to the fourth century BC and is guarded by two headless sphinx. Considered to be one of the most significant ...

The head of a near-intact marble sphinx has been discovered in the largest tomb ever unearthed in Amphipolis, northern Greece. Sphinx discovered at Greek tomb Home Page ...

Greek archaeologists excavating a massive Alexander the Great-era burial mound complex at Kasta Hill, in the northern Greek region of Serres, have found one of the missing sphinx heads belonging ...