The sphinx moth has a name that sounds straight out of mythology, but it actually reflects three very real creatures. Its name draws from the sphinx, the hawk, and the hummingbird — each describing ...

The Great Sphinx of Giza, a 66-foot-tall statue resting in the shadow of the nearby Great Pyramid of Giza, is one of the most widely recognizable relics of the ancient world. Even if you’ve never seen ...

When Cecil B. DeMille made his 1923 blockbuster “The Ten Commandments,” he used the massive sloping sand dunes in Guadalupe, near Santa Barbara, as a stand-in for ancient Egypt. Huge gates and ...

Is it a hummingbird? Is it a butterfly? Lubbock A-J reader P.W. of Lubbock wondered about a strange creature hovering in flight around flowering Ajuga and thought perhaps it was some kind of ...

How do you move a priceless, 25,000-pound (11,340-kilogram) sphinx? Very carefully. The largest sphinx in the Western Hemisphere is on the move for the first time in nearly 100 years.

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Two sphinx creatures lie with their backs to each other. Each sphinx has a female head with an ancient Greek or Roman helmet, the body of a lion, wings of a bird, and fleur-de-lis of St. Louis ...