(CNN) — More than 40 years ago, Farouk El-Baz — a space scientist and geologist known for his field investigations in deserts around the world — theorized that the wind played a big hand in shaping ...

If you’ve taken a trip to the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, you’ll probably recall being greeted by an enormous granite sphinx in the Egyptian gallery. Bearing the ...

Yesterday Banksy revealed a sculpture piece he installed at 35th Avenue and 127th Street in Willets Point. By 4:30 pm, according to Gothamist, the owner of a nearby auto-glass shop who claimed to be ...

On Tuesday October 22, 2013, a sculpture of a sphinx made of foam, cement and cinder-blocks appeared on a sidewalk in Queens, New York surrounded by a wide pool of putrid water. On his website, the ...

British street art Banksy has been creating work every day in October throughout New York city. Many of the pieces have been defaced, painted over and even faked and sold and on Tuesday a New York ...

A stolen Egyptian granite sculpture of a sphinx that risked ending up on the black market for antiquities is destined instead for a Rome museum. Italian tax police chief Massimo Rossi said the sphinx, ...

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Two sphinx creatures lie with their backs to each other. Each sphinx has a female head with an ancient Greek or Roman helmet, the body of a lion, wings of a bird, and fleur-de-lis of St. Louis ...

Carlock, Marty, "A Guide to Public Art in Greater Boston," Boston: Harvard Common Press, 1988. Save Outdoor Sculpture, Massachusetts survey, 1998. Image on file. (On ...