Father’s Day has just passed us by. Late being better than never, here is a belated salute to Father’s Day as celebrated by our old buddy Oedipus in Greek mythology land. If you think your family ...

Ancient Lost Worlds and Hidden History. On location videos made by author and adventurer Brien Foerster exploring Peru, Bolivia, Egypt, Hawaii, Easter Island and other exotic places. With special ...

Yet at its most vulnerable moment in the year 335 BC, Thebes was utterly abandoned by its luminaires. Overconfidence and ...

When we visited King Tut’s tomb in the Valley of the Kings, we were in the midst of a guided Abercrombie & Kent tour of Egypt ...

These famous riddles have puzzled readers from ancient times all the way to the present Riddles and brain teasers have fascinated people for centuries, challenging us to think in new ways and make ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza has stood guard over the desert for thousands of years. Carved from limestone and towering beside the pyramids, it remains a powerful symbol of ancient ingenuity. With its ...

The triple statuette depicted the chief god of Thebes, Amun, his wife and mother ... evolution during the first millennium BC. Pyramids, Sphinx & Khafre's Treasures Previous excavations at the ...

He turned to me. “At the risk of stating the obvious: you’re not a ‘real’ Sphinx, this isn’t Thebes, and any reference to ‘classical forms’ is completely arbitrary. And kill me?

The Sphinx of Thebes is not to be confused with the male Sphinx of Giza, in Egypt. Assyria, the Grecian and pre-Grecian settlements in Asia Minor, the Mayans of Yucatan also had their sphinxes.

Herein lie the seeds of Mr. Brown’s defeat. The Sphinx of Thebes asked everyone who encountered it a riddle. Elizabeth herself was the riddle. Those who knew her, Mr. Brown writes, vouched that ...

In this story, the Sphinx is a merciless hybrid creature — head of a woman and body of a lion — that stands guard over the gate to Thebes, posing an enigmatic question to all who try to enter the city ...