It also contains an ancient lost city that was once thriving before it was abandoned and left to ruin. Memphis may be considered Egypt's Atlantis (De Agostini via Getty Images) By.

Wanna tour to the ancient Egyptian city of Memphis? Inscribed as a World Heritage Site in as early as 1979, this open-air museum city, founded in about 3100 BC, offers a glimpse of its glorious ...

Experts from the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard have scanned declassified Cold War-era images from U2 spy planes to reveal ancient structures across the Middle East.

Not the sphinx’s first move. The sphinx is not unaccustomed to big moves — or to standing sentinel at the entrances of institutions. It was discovered in 1912 by the British archeologist Flinders ...

The Sphinx of Ramses the Great had a full life before it arrived at a Philadelphia port in 1913. The red granite sculpture guarded a temple in Egypt for 3,200 years before a British archaeological ...

Last week, the Penn Museum in Philadelphia moved its 12.5 ton Egyptian sphinx to a new gallery. The move took planning, patience, and a few hoverboards.