- Gr**** or Levantine/Mesopotamian ones,
Egyptian sphinxes were not winged. Both the Gr**** and
Egyptian sphinxes were
thought of as guardians, and
statues of...
-
Thebes (modern Luxor), with
sphinxes and ram-headed
statues lined up on both flanks.
Construction of the
Avenue of
Sphinxes began during the New Kingdom...
- Quay with
Sphinxes (
Sphinxes at the
Universitetskaya Embankment) is a quay at the
Universitetskaya Embankment in
Saint Petersburg, in
front of the Imperial...
- the
Royal Navy have
borne the name HMS
Sphinx or HMS Sphynx,
after the
mythical creature, the
Sphinx: HMS
Sphinx (1748) was a 24-gun
sixth rate launched...
-
Egyptian sphinxes, the
Great Sphinx has a man's head and no wings). The
English word
sphinx comes from the
ancient Gr**** Σφίγξ (transliterated:
sphinx) apparently...
- temples.
Sphinxes'
depictions are
generally ****ociated with
architectural structures such as
royal tombs or
religious temples. The
famous Sphinx of the...
-
Karnak area was
lined with human-headed
sphinxes; in
ancient times it is
probable that
these replaced earlier sphinxes which may have had
different heads....
- Indeed,
other works by
Moreau often feature victorious sphinxes atop a
mound of victims. The
Sphinx in the
painting may be seen as a form of
femme fatale...
-
Sphinx ligustri, the
privet hawk moth, is a moth
found in most of the
Palearctic realm. The
species was
first described by Carl
Linnaeus in his 1758 10th...
-
Great Sphinx of Giza, the
giant Sphinx statue near the
Great Pyramids Sphinx of Memphis, a
stone sphinx located near the
ruins of
Memphis Sphinx International...
