Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered broken statues of ancient royalty at a sun temple in Heliopolis, an archaeological site that was once a major city near what is now Cairo. The stone-carved ...

(CNN) — A new sphinx-like statue has been discovered in Egypt-- but this one is thought to be Roman. The smiling sculpture and the remains of a shrine were found during an excavation mission in Qena, ...

CAIRO (AP) — Archaeologists unearthed a Sphinx-like statue and the remains of a shrine in an ancient temple in southern Egypt, antiquities authorities said Monday. The artifacts were found in the ...

A Roman-era limestone sphinx was discovered from an excavation site of a limestone cabin, 310 miles south of the Egyptian capital of Cairo. The latest discovery is believed to be based on the royal ...

The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities has announced the discovery of a small sphinx beside the Dendera Temple in Qena, Egypt. The Roman-era sphinx, much smaller than its monumental ...

The sea gives and the sea takes. Now, it has given back pieces of a lost 2,000-year-old city. Off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, cranes lifted statues, coins, and stone anchors from the Mediterranean ...

Ancient statues, Roman coins and other artifacts from a sunken city were pulled from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Egypt Thursday. The relics date back over 2,000 years. Egyptian authorities ...

The Egyptian archaeologist Selim Hassan finally freed the statue from the sand in the late 1930s. “The Sphinx has thus emerged into the landscape out of shadows of what seemed to be an impenetrable ...

LUXOR, Egypt — Egypt on Sunday revealed the revamp of two colossal statues of a prominent pharaoh in the southern city of Luxor, the latest in the government’s archaeological events that aim at ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. MARKS: WEDGWOOD (impressed). The ...