Scientists believe that a cave east of Athens was a hideout for lions which roamed the ancient Greek countryside thousands of ...

Ancient Egyptian ... Near the group of pyramids at Giza is the sculpture of the Great Sphinx. A Sphinx is a mythical animal which is half lion, half human. Make your own pyramid treasure tomb ...

With the head of a human and the body of a lion, this massive sculpture has stood guard ... represent one of the greatest displays of ancient Egyptian craftsmanship found anywhere in the country.

Ancient Egyptian art and design includes painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, furniture, textiles and other material objects produced by the civilization living in the Nile Valley from roughly ...

Ancient Egypt is well known ... Archaeologists say the Egyptian goddess of protection, pleasure, and good health, was first depicted with a lion’s head, but around the first millennium BC ...

Dates: 3100 B.C. to 30 B.C. Writing: Hieroglyphics, a writing system that uses pictures; hieratic, a quicker type of "cursive"; and demotic, a written short-form script Ancient Egypt's gods ...

About 2,600 years ago, two lion cubs were mummified and buried in an ancient city of the dead. The cats' organs were removed, and the cubs' tiny, 3-foot-long bodies were dried out and wrapped in ...