Ancient Sphinxes

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About Ancient Sphinxes

Let's bring together our photo's of sphinxes as exhibited in museums and historic places all over the world.
A Sphinx is a mythological figure, depicted as a recumbent lion with a human head. It has its origins in sculpted figures of Old Kingdom Egypt, to which the ancient Greeks applied their own name for a female monster, an archaic figure of Greek mythology. Similar creatures appear throughout South and South-East Asia, and the sphinx enjoyed a major revival in European decorative art from the Renaissance onwards.
(WikipediA encyclopedia)