The Great Sphinx of Giza is a massive limestone statue with the body of a lion and the head of a human. Image: Pexels. It's located on the Giza Plateau in Egypt, near the great pyramids, ...

One of Cairo's must-see attractions is the Great Sphinx, the world's oldest monumental sculpture. Situated by the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx impresses with its size – it measures 66 feet ...

Randall Carlson joins UnchartedX to discuss one of Egypt’s most controversial mysteries: the erosion patterns around the ...

The oldest known sphinx statuette has just been found near the pyramids of Giza. It’s small in size but massive in historical ...

Find the complete program transcript, including credits for the NOVA program Riddles of the Sphinx, originally broadcast on PBS on January 19, 2010.

Napoleon’s 1798 battle didn’t even take place on the Giza plateau, but 10 miles north at Imbabah. Some theories have posited that storms and earthquakes shook the Sphinx’s nose from its face ...

GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt — The newly restored Sphinx has neither the nose nor the beard that once graced its massive stone head. It hasn’t had a complete set of facial features at least since an ...

“White supremacy caused Napoleon to blow the nose off the Sphinx because it reminded [him] too much of the black man’s majesty.” — Louis Farrakhan, October 16 ON THE 19th of May, 1798, a ...

(Program no longer available for streaming) For 45 centuries, the Great Sphinx has cast its enigmatic gaze over Egypt's Giza Plateau. The biggest and oldest statue in a land of colossal ancient ...