Protection from the Sahara's howling dust storms may have helped the Sphinx maintain its steady gaze over the millennia.

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 ...

Khafre may be best known for his statues, and most famous among them is, of course, the Sphinx. Mark Lehner and Zahi Hawass write of Khafre: "He was, after all, perhaps the greatest maker of ...

dates back to around 2,500 B.C. It is the oldest monumental sculpture in Egypt and is thought to represent the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh Khafre. Excavation work will continue at the site for the ...