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  2. John Beasley Greene - Wikipedia

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    The Sphinx by Egyptologist and photographer John Beasley Greene, ca.1853. John Beasley Greene (1832 – November 1856) was a French-born American Egyptologist and one of the earliest archaeological documentary photographers. He died at the age of 24. Because of his early demise, his pioneering work was quickly forgotten.

  3. Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre - Wikipedia

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    Crypt of the Sphinx, Room 1 of the Department with the Great Sphinx of Tanis. The Department of Egyptian Antiquities of the Louvre (French: Département des Antiquités égyptiennes du Louvre) is a department of the Louvre that is responsible for artifacts from the Nile civilizations which date from 4,000 BC to the 4th century. [1]

  4. Great Sphinx of Tanis - Wikipedia

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    The Great Sphinx of Tanis is a granite sculpture of a sphinx, whose date may be as early as the 26th century BC. It was discovered in the ruins of the Temple of Amun-Ra in Tanis , Egypt's capital during the 21st Dynasty and the 23rd Dynasty .

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  6. ‘Mysterious’ inscription on ancient sphinx is deciphered ...

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    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.

  7. Oedipus and the Sphinx (Ingres) - Wikipedia

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    Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1808–27, oil on canvas, 189 x 144 cm, Louvre. Oedipus and the Sphinx is a painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres. Originally a student work painted in 1808, it was enlarged and completed in 1827. The painting depicts Oedipus explaining the riddle of the Sphinx.

  8. Gaston Maspero - Wikipedia

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    Sir Gaston Camille Charles Maspero KCMG [1] (23 June 1846 – 30 June 1916) was a French Egyptologist and director general of excavations and antiquities for the Egyptian government. Widely regarded as the foremost Egyptologist of his generation, he began his career teaching Egyptian language in Paris becoming a professor at the Collège de ...

  9. Phoenician Sphinx inscription - Wikipedia

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    The Phoenician Sphinx inscription. The Phoenician Sphinx inscription, also known as the Abdadoni inscription is an inscription found at Umm al-Amad, Lebanon. [1] The inscription is written on the socle of a statue of a couching sphinx, with only the feet and ankles still attached. The body of the sphinx was found lying next to it, but the head ...