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The Alabaster Sphinx was discovered in 1912 by Flinders Petrie, [3] when an affiliate from the British School in America spotted a uniquely carved object jutting out of a sand hill. It was so far in the season that excavation was useless, but a year later in 1913, further digging displayed that the object was a Sphinx's tail. [2]
The alabaster sphinx that guards the Temple of Ptah serves as a memorial of the city's former power and prestige. [ 24 ] [ 25 ] The Memphis triad , consisting of the creator god Ptah, his consort Sekhmet , and their son Nefertem , formed the main focus of worship in the city.
The alabaster of Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire is found in thick nodular beds or "floors" in spheroidal masses known as "balls" or "bowls" and in smaller lenticular masses termed "cakes". At Chellaston, where the local alabaster is known as "Patrick", it has been worked into ornaments under the name of "Derbyshire spar"―a term more properly ...
A message etched into an ancient sphinx has proven to be, well, sphinx-like. The “mysterious” inscription has long been an enigma, puzzling scholars for over a century.
Alabaster Caverns State Park is a 200-acre (0.81 km 2) state park approximately 4.5 miles (7.2 km) south of Freedom, Oklahoma, United States near Oklahoma State Highway 50. [3] The park attracted 24,706 visitors in FY 2016, The lowest count of the three parks in its part of Oklahoma.
The Great Sphinx remains one of the world’s biggest mysteries, but a new study suggests that wind could have had a bigger hand in shaping it than originally thought. Scientists offer evidence to ...
The oldest message in a bottle ever found was 131 years and 223 days old when it was discovered, Guinness World Records said in a statement. Australians Tonya and Kym Illman found the message on ...
Thutmose III as sphinx, alabaster, 1.095 metres (3 ft 7 in) Amenhotep III, standing, red quartzite, 2.49 metres (8 ft 2 in) the goddess Iunyt, seated, grey granite 1.45 metres (4 ft 9 in) Tutankhamun as sphinx, alabaster (with paint remains) 0.56 metres (1 ft 10 in) Horemheb, kneeling holding offering pots, diorite 1.91 metres (6 ft 3 in)