The Sphinx is oriented from west to east and faces the rising sun. This was important to ancient Egyptians, who worshipped the sun ...

For thousands of years, sand buried the colossus up to its shoulders, creating a vast disembodied head atop ... freed the statue from the sand in the late 1930s. “The Sphinx has thus emerged ...

Often linked to the sun god Ra, the statue reflects the union of human intellect, represented by its head, and physical ...

The fragments all fit together, allowing the statue to piece together, minus that pesky head, of course. Archaeologists excavating a private property in Florence, Italy, discovered a 20-inch ...