Great Sphinx

Once back in the fresh air, Alexander could have toured smaller pyramids and temples in the complex as well, but he would not have missed the Great Sphinx.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Left, the Pyramid of Menkaure, the Great Sphinx and Khafre's Pyramid before the lights went out for Earth Hour in Cairo, Egypt, March 27, 2010.

The Hour of Our Planet 2011

Napoleon usually gets the blame for destroying the nose of the Great Sphinx at Giza, but historical sources blame the 14th-century iconoclast Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr.

Egypt's Antiquities Fall Victim to the Mob Alex Joffe 2011

Once back in the fresh air, Alexander could have toured smaller pyramids and temples in the complex as well, but he would not have missed the Great Sphinx.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

If she just stopped, here and now, the sand would cover her as surely as it had buried the Great Sphinx centuries ago.

Shadow Chase Seressia Glass 2010

If she just stopped, here and now, the sand would cover her as surely as it had buried the Great Sphinx centuries ago.

Shadow Chase Seressia Glass 2010

It's pretty much non-stop action, with Hunt jumping off a cliff, zipping through the streets of New York in a harrowing cab chase, stowing away in a packing crate and winding up in the shadow of the Great Sphinx, escaping on camel back, and so on.

Archive 2009-09-20 Bill Crider 2009

It is also the second most recognizable symbol of ancient Egypt, at least in a non-architectural sense though I'd say, even if you include the Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, she'd still come in no lower than fourth.

"That's how people grow up" Patrick J. Smith 2009

It is also the second most recognizable symbol of ancient Egypt, at least in a non-architectural sense though I'd say, even if you include the Great Pyramid and the Great Sphinx, she'd still come in no lower than fourth.

Archive 2009-05-01 Patrick J. Smith 2009

Noguchi's wife Yoshiko (Shirley) Yamaguchi on a camel overlooking the Great Sphinx, 2520-2494 B.C.

Archaeology as Modern Art? 2009