Sphinx alley coming to Karnak

A sphinx at the Mount Auburn Cemetery that commemorates the Civil War. A inscription reads:

American union preserved

African slavery destroyed

By the uprising of a great people

By the blood of fallen heroes

Sphinx

A Sphinx, picture taken at the Louvre, Ancient Egypt section.. The fate decided to let us see this replication instead of the original one, in Giza.

Victoria Embankment, London, Tuesday afternoon, May 2012

The Sphinx has some bird issues ...

First decent shot of one of this in a long time. This one was a variety that I have not seen in Cedar Rapids before. There were actually quite a few in the area on Saturday.

Architrave block from the Temple of Athena at Assos with facing sphinxes

Greek, East Greek, Archaic Period, about 540–525 B.C.

Findspot: Assos (Behramkale), Troad, Anatolia (Turkey)

Trachyte

A Sphinx bonnet motif photographed at Mells

Sphinx of Hatshepsut

Egyptian, Dynasty 18, joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose III ca. 1473-1458 BC

The Sphinx Observatory, standing at 3571 meters. At the time of its construction in 1937, it was the highest elevation observatory in the world. This is the one featured in the Grand Budapest Hotel!

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Lirac, Gard

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sphinx Colibri

the seven wonders of the world 29/1/2015

a sphinx at the remains of the Crystal Palace in Bromley.

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In the gardens of Chiswick House

Dug up at base of Vitex tree in yard on Vine Ave, Tucson

At Vizcaya.

Sphinx before pharaoh Khufu's Great Pyramid at Giza. Picture taken March 1982 while on research trip with a Pentax Spotmatic 35 mm using Ektachrome slide film.

Sphinx Members walk down the "Long Walk", Sphinx 75th Anniversary (Photo Location: 50-35.8-1)

Was lucky to be in NYC in time to see this amazing sight. An enormous sphinx covered in sugar at the old Domino sugar factory. It's by Kara Walker, and is titled, 'a Subtlety'.

Silver Dollar Room

falena Sphinx ligustri

St Petersburg sphinxes

Sphinx on the grounds of Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Sphinx moths are often mistaken for hummingbirds as they hover around flowers feeding on nectar with their long tongues.

Looks like a sphinx under all that wrapping.

Deir el Bahri, Luxor

Pyramids and Sphinx at Giza

The temple of the Sphinx

One of the sphinxes at Karnak

The Sphinx was carved out of bedrock sometime around 2500 BCE (but restoration uses blocks). It was built as the guard to Khafre's pyramid but later took on the role of a god and was worshipped (as noted by Pliny the Elder in his manuscript Natural History 77-79 CE). It is believed the face is that of Khafre.

Contrary to popular belief, the face was not targeted by Napoleon's artillery. It is believed the nose was removed by an extremist who believed removing the nose was how you defeated the pagan god.

Sculpture by Dhruva Mistry, one of the sphinx-like 'Guardians', part of the dramatic 1990s enhancement of Victoria Square, Birmingham.

Sphinx II - photo taken by mrtraveller in Giza, Egypt.

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