A sphinx, like this one found in a temple in Aswan, Egypt, is a mythical creature created by the Egyptians with the head of a human man, the body of a lion and sometimes wings. In Greek mythology ...

A look at a truly mysterious painting, 'The Questioner of the Sphinx', by Elihu Vedder, and the context in which it was ...

A newly uncovered sandstone Sphinx statue, believed to be more than 2,000 years old, was revealed during work to lower the groundwater level in an ancient temple.

The sphinx must have been anyway - anywhere between 1 1/2 to 1 meter 80 in length and about a little bit less than a meter, about 80 centimeters in height, which would make it something weighing ...

Some amazing archaeological finds involve daring adventures into hidden tombs. Others -- as is the case with the discovery of a beautiful new sphinx in Egypt -- simply involve a spot of drainage.