EGYPT || Mystery of life

<n>The Great Sphinx of Giza</n> and <n>Pyramid of Khufu</n>, 1867. Photo by <n>Antonio Beato</n>.

A 1:25 scale replica of <n>The Sphinx</n> at the <n>Tobu World Square</n> theme park in <n>Nikko</n>, <n>Japan</n>.

The <n>Eye of the Desert</n>, a geological formation in the central desert of Iran.

Tourists climbing the <n>Great Pyramid of Khufu</n> in Giza, circa 1870. Photo by <n>Félix Bonfils</n>.

Tourists climbing the <n>Great Pyramid of Giza</n>, circa 1880.

A limestone <n>Relief plaque of cobra on a neb basket</n> from Egypt, ca. 400–30 B.C.

The <n>Great Pyramids of Giza</n> photographed by <n>Karim Amr</n>.

<n>Vue vers les Pyramides de Gizeh</n>, a photograph of the <n>Pyramids of Giza</n> from the 1870s.

The <n>Statue of Ramesses II</n> is reassembled during the <n>UNESCO</n>-led relocation of the <n>Abu Simbel temples</n>, 1967.

A 1913 photograph by <n>Friedrich Hunscher</n> of the <n>Bust of Nefertiti</n>, sculpted by <n>Thutmose</n> c. 1345 BCE.

<n>State Museum of Egyptian Art</n> in Munich by <n>Peter Böhm Architekten</n>. Photo by <n>Dieter Leistner</n>.

A depiction of the sky goddess <n>Nut</n> over the earth god <n>Geb</n>, from the 1894 book <n>The Dawn of Astronomy</n>.

A garland on the royal insignia of <n>Tutankhamun</n>'s outermost coffin. Photo by <n>Harry Burton</n>, 1926.

A tourist copies hieroglyphs at the <n>Karnak Temple Complex</n> in Egypt, 1927.

Egypt's ancient wonders, photographed by <n>Yann Arthus-Bertrand</n>.

The <n>Great Sphinx of Giza</n> photographed by <n>Neurdein</n> between 1867 and 1899.

An ice necklace by artist <n>Katia Hakko</n>.

Photograph by <n>Elliott Erwitt</n> taken at the <n>Metropolitan Museum</n> in New York City, 1988.