What? The Lion of Venice, an ancient bronze statue of a winged lion which can be seen by countless tourists on a massive ...

although it actually depicted the Egyptian pharaoh Amenhotep III; and in early Egyptology, all such statues were called "Memnons." The term "younger" was used to differentiate it from others ...

Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities (SCA) has denied social media claims that iconic lion statues on Cairo's Qasr El-Nil Bridge were painted black. Such claims are “false and unfounded ...

Egyptian archaeologists have discovered a statue of a sphinx while draining ... combining the physical strength of a lion with the worldly might of a king. The Great Sphinx by the pyramids of ...

The finding also included 75 decorated wooden and bronze cat statues ... in Egyptian artwork and architecture. "There are really no practical reasons for the lack of lion mummies," Conni Lord ...