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 natural limestone ...

Google has taken us on virtual tours of ancient monuments in Mexico, India, Italy, Jordan — and now it's Egypt's turn for the panoramic treatment of archaeological sites. This week, Google unveiled ...

From the glass atrium of the Grand Egyptian Museum, the three great Pyramids of Giza are perfectly framed on the desert horizon. The architects designed it this way; a deliberate alignment connecting ...

The Sphinx sits right next to a pharaoh’s pyramid complex, which makes many historians think it was built to watch over his tomb.

Cairo is often reduced to a single image, the Pyramids of Giza, but the reality on the ground is far richer, louder, and more layered than most travelers expect.

Cairo, Nov 6 (EFE).Cairo, Nov 6 (EFE). — Egyptian authorities have completed the restoration of the famous Sphinx and the pyramid of Menkaure, the smallest of the three Giza Pyramids, said Antiquities ...

Having never been to Cairo or Egypt for that matter, I really didn’t know what to expect. Upon arriving on Saturday afternoon, my first impression was that this largest of all cities in Africa was a ...

NARRATOR: Nothing represents the mysteries of ancient Egypt more than the Great Sphinx. How did the Egyptians build this crouching lion, human-headed creature? ZAHI HAWASS (Supreme Council of ...

The Great Sphinx and the Pyramids of Giza. Click here to view in Google Street View. On Tuesday morning, Google unveiled Street View Egypt in Google Maps, the latest step in the tech giant’s quest to ...

When Mark Lehner was a teenager in the late 1960s, his parents introduced him to the writings of the famed clairvoyant Edgar Cayce. During one of his trances, Cayce, who died in 1945, saw that ...