sphinx Archive
Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - It often takes patience and time to solve ancient enigmas. Scientists have tried for over a century to decipher a mysterious inscription etched
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Ancient people understood a smile could brighten the day. That is a least what most think after the announcement a smiling sphinx has
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - While carrying out recent restoration works on the statues of Memnon and the "Temple of Millions of Years" on the western mainland in
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt have unearthed the foundations of the Temple of the Sun and blocks dating back to Khufu‘s reign at the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - King Amenhotep III, also known as Amenhotep the Great, was the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During his reign, Egypt successfully managed to
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - The theory there was once a second sphinx is not new, but despite many claims no-one has been able to provide solid evidence
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Civilizations
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Pharaoh Thutmose IV reigned from 1400–1390 B.C., and had a special relationship with the Great Sphinx at Giza. According to Thutmose IV, the
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Egyptian Mythology
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - In ancient Egyptian mythology, Zep Tepi can be translated as the 'First Time.' It was during Zep Tepi Gods established their kingdom on
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek - AncientPages.com - Whenever the Sphinx is mentioned most think of Egypt, but the Sphinx was a being most ancient civilizations were familiar with. Artifacts depicting
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – During excavations in the basement of the Courtauld Gallery in London, UK, archaeologists were amazed to unearth the remains of a medieval cesspit
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Archaeology
Jan Bartek – AncientPages.com – Ancient Egyptians believed that a person's soul had many parts. One of these parts was called the ka, and the Egyptian symbol was sometimes
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Whenever the word “sphinx” is mentioned people automatically think about the Great Sphinx of Giza. It’s not surprising because it is today the
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Archaeology
Conny Waters - AncientPages.com - A stunning Sphinx Room at Emperor Nero's famed Domus Aurea (Golden House) in Rome has been rediscovered after 2,000 years. The room is decorated with
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - What would you do if you learned something terrible would happen to you and your family? Most of us would do what Oedipus
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Archaeologists excavating in Egypt announced they have unearthed an intriguing sandstone statue of a sphinx. The discovery was made in Kom Ombo temple in Aswan. There are
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - A new large sphinx has been discovered in Luxor, Egypt. The ancient statue has a "lion's body with a human head". According to Egyptian officials, the ministry
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Featured Stories
Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Do we see artificial structures in works created by Mother Nature simply because we want to believe they are man-made? Or do we deliberately
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Ellen Lloyd - AncientPages.com - Few ancient structures have caused as much controversy as the Great Sphinx of Giza in Egypt. Scientists, archaeologists, and historians have debated its
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Artifacts
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A controversial artifact known as the Inventory Stela says that the Valley Temple and the Sphinx, already existed during the reign of Khufu, who ruled more
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - Symbols played an important role in ancient Egypt. Ancient Egyptian religion had many gods and symbols, some of which were only associated with the
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Civilizations
AncientPages.com - There has never been a satisfactory answer to what the Sphinx actually is or was. Anyone who goes to Giza can see for himself or herself that
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Archaeology
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - A rare sculpture of a sphinx dating back more than 1,000 years has been unearthed in a tomb in northwest China. The marble sculpture
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Ancient Symbols
A. Sutherland - AncientPages.com - An idol with human head and a lion's body known as sphinx is one of the most important symbols in humanity's records. It's a
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Archaeology
AncientPages.com - Fragment of an ancient Egyptian king's unique sphinx was unearthed at a dig in northern Israel, and researchers struggling to understand just how the unexpected find
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