Free and clear Modern visitors to the Giza plateau gaze on a Sphinx free of sand, following clearance work carried out in the 1930s. Behind rises the Great Pyramid of Khufu, the tallest of Giza ...

Egypt: Giza Pyramid theory shattered with 'final puzzle piece' found at Sphinx AN EGYPT expert revealed his sensational discovery at the site of the Great Sphinx, which he claimed could upend ...

Two researchers claim in a book that there is a link between Mars and Earth using NASA's original photograph of the "Face on Mars", which shares a "common ancestry" with Egypt's Great Sphinx. In ...

The world-famous dates back around 4,500 years, and sits next to the Great Pyramid of Giza – one of Egypt's busiest tourist hotspots. But we know surprisingly little about the statue, despite ...

The sphinx has been restored several times in its history, most recently for a ten-year span starting in the 1990s. Khafre's pyramid will be open to visitors after a new lighting system to light ...

Want to see the Sphinx up close? Take in the view from the top of the Great Pyramid? Walk along the entire 144-foot length of the Pharaoh Khufu's reconstructed funerary vessel, carved 4,500 years ...

The Sphinx The Sphinx, which embodies the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh, is believed to be the head of Khafre and his guardian spirit for his entire burial complex. Carved from the ...

The largest of the three main pyramids of Giza is Khufu's Pyramid. (Image credit: Bruce Yuanyue Bi via Getty Images.) In 2013 archaeologist Zahi Hawass, the former Egyptian minister of state for ...

Giza pyramid and sphinx have been restored"The sphinx is now safe and sound and will greet visitors to the Giza plateau after being hidden under scaffoldings for almost three years," El-Damaty ...