Sophocles, a Greek playwright and dramatist of renown who lived between 496 and 406 B.C produced a tragic play entitled Oedipus Rex in 411 B.C. The play has drawn tremendous ovation from literary men ...

This video shows a monumental ancient Egyptian sphinx displayed inside the Louvre Museum. The walk focuses on the sculpture’s scale, setting, and its place within the museum’s Egyptian antiquities ...

KUWAIT, Dec 20 (KUNA) -- Kuwait Airways declared on Saturday scheduled flights to the Egyptian International Sphinx Airport as of January 15. There will be three flights a week on Sundays, Tuesdays ...

One of Cairo's must-see attractions is the Great Sphinx, the world's oldest monumental sculpture. Situated by the Pyramids of Giza, the Great Sphinx impresses with its size – it measures 66 feet high ...

This story appears in the January/February 2017 issue of National Geographic History magazine. Amelia Blanford Edwards was one of a stream of European travelers drawn to see the wonders of Egypt at ...