Traces of blue and yellow paint elsewhere suggest to Lehner that the Sphinx was once decked out in gaudy comic book colors. For thousands of years, sand buried the colossus up to its shoulders ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the most prominent ... are known as yardangs which form as a result of the desert blowing ...

who dreamt that the Sphinx asked him to clear the sand around it in return for the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. The Sphinx has recently undergone a major modern restoration. The so-called ...

King Thutmose IV didn't build the Great Sphinx. He rediscovered it, hidden in the sand, and - according to legend - it made him king in return. National Treasure: Amelia Earhart Designed a New ...