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 ...

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.

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 ...