In the end, they decided to make a sketch show about life itself. “[‘Sphinx’] started out amorphous, but towards the end we became a lot more driven,” says Hall.

The Sphinx did not close its eyes, and the images circulated are likely to be taken from indirect angles, which showed the statue with closed eyes, or modified with one of the image-editing programs.

The Great Sphinx is believed to be a manifestation of the sun god, built to protect the pyramids around 2500 B.C., during the 4th dynasty, along with the Great Pyramids of Giza.

The sphinx was never supposed to move from its pedestal. The 3,000-year-old monument to the Egyptian pharaoh Ramses II stood in the Lower Egyptian gallery of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of ...

For decades, it’s been theorized the Great Sphinx of Giza may have originally been a lion-shaped natural landform that ancient Egyptians modified to form the stone-faced feline. A new study from ...

In the end, they decided to make a sketch show about life itself. “[‘Sphinx’] started out amorphous, but towards the end we became a lot more driven,” says Hall. The inspiration for the show comes ...

Watch for an Arts preview of Sphinx: A Sketch Show. Show opens April 21st at 8:00 PM in the Loeb Experimental Theater.