Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.

Sphinxes - statues with a lion's body and a man's head - are creatures of myth and legend, but they're also one of the great symbols of Egyptian royalty and power. The most famous of all ...

The mystery only deepened when Italian researchers claimed to have discovered a 'vast underground city' from giant vertical ...

Past travelers said the best way to see the Great Sphinx is to sign up for a bus tour. Some prearranged tours – including those offered by Memphis Tours and Love Egypt Tours – will give you ...

Sphinxes - statues with a lion's body and a man's head - are creatures of myth and legend, but they're also one of the great symbols of Egyptian royalty and power. The most famous of all ...

Their compromise? Having the first wedding celebration thought to be held in modern times at the base of the Great Pyramids in Egypt, in front of the Sphinx, officiated by the world's foremost ...

dune-covered wilderness where a scattering of tombs lay under the burning Egyptian sun. Along with the enigmatic Sphinx and other smaller tombs and monuments, Giza has three principal pyramids ...

Sphinx of Taharqo (made around 680 BC) found in Temple T at Kawa, northern Sudan. If you were to ask which country the River Nile belongs to, most people would immediately say Egypt. But in fact ...