The Great Sphinx has fascinated explorers for centuries, but recent discoveries hint at secret chambers and hidden tunnels beneath its massive structure. This video explores the evidence for a ...

Penn’s 25,000-Pound, 3,000-Year-Old Egyptian Sphinx Has a New Home Scenes from the move at the Penn Museum on Wednesday morning. By David Murrell · 6/13/2019, 10:04 a.m.

The Sphinx’s head has a royal look and bears some traditional symbols of ancient Egypt’s monarchy. It wears the nemes, a cloth headdress worn by Egyptian pharaohs.The remains of a carved royal ...

What’s more, French naturalist Dr. Pierre Belon visited the Sphinx in 1546, writing that it had sustained damage and “no longer [had] the stamp of grace and beauty so admired by Abdel Latif in ...

You can still see the Sphinx at the Penn Museum but not for long. Autumn Miller is visiting from Florida and happy to catch it, "We're just really excited this was still here when we came." At the ...

The Penn Museum used “glorified hoverboards” to lift its 13-ton ancient Egyptian sphinx to its new home at the entrance, ... Once the sphinx was inside, the wall was closed. It was bricked up,” said ...

Stepping up to the table, the tourist squinted to make out what lay underneath the dusty glass top. “ANCIENT EGYPTIAN GAME, IVORY, 3,000 BC” read the typed index card next to several pale yellow ...

The sphinx was perched in the museum garden, inside the building’s vestibule, and finally landed in 1926 in the Lower Egyptian Gallery where it has overseen decades of dinners, lectures, and ...