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 ...

The largest sphinx in the Western Hemisphere, the 25,000 pound red granite Sphinx of the Pharaoh Ramses II was moved from its former location in the Egypt Gallery at the Penn Museum, to a new ...

Total War Pharaoh is finally here, and as the long-running strategy game series takes us to the shores of Ancient Egypt to step into the shoes of famous leaders from the time such as Ramesses, Seti, ...

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 end ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. King Thutmose IV didn't build the Great Sphinx. He rediscovered it, hidden in the sand, and - according to ...

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The most enigmatic of sculptures, the Sphinx was carved from a single block of limestone left over in the quarry used to build the Pyramids. Scholars believe it was sculpted about 4,600 years ago by ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a trove of artifacts from a 2,000-year-old sunken city off Egypt's coast, including an artifact with the name of a biblical pharaoh. The underwater excavation at Abu Qir ...