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The Sphinx of Agost is a Greek-influenced Iberian limestone sculpture, [1] dated from the late 6th-century BCE, that was found in the Agost reservoir in Alicante, Spain, in 1893. The badly damaged statue is 82 cm high and represents a sphinx with the head of a woman, body of a winged lion and tail of a snake.
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Sphinx antaeus Drury, 1773 Sphinx annonae Shaw, 1802 Sphinx hydaspus Cramer, 1777 Sphinx iatrophae Fabricius, 1775 Sphinx medor Stoll, 1782 Amphonyx tapayusa Moore, 1883 Cocytius henrici Pinchon, 1969
Was the Great Sphinx of Giza a natural landform that ancient Egyptians modified to form the stone-faced feline? A new study uses fluid dynamics to find out.
A sphinx (/ s f ɪ ŋ k s / SFINKS; Ancient Greek: σφίγξ, pronounced; [1] pl. sphinxes or sphinges) is a mythical creature with the head of a human, the body of a lion, and the wings of an eagle. In Greek tradition, the sphinx is a treacherous and merciless being with the head of a woman, the haunches of a lion, and the wings of a bird.
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 collection of Iberian sculpture from southern and southeastern Iberia is particularly notable, including stone sculptures such as the iconic Lady of Elche, the Lady of Baza, the Lady of Galera, the Dama del Cerro de los Santos, the Bicha of Balazote, the Bull of Osuna, the Sphinx of Agost, one of the two sphinxes of El Salobral or the ...
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.