Event location
Blue Bell
The lecture tells us the story of the Penn Museum's Sphinx ( the largest sphinx in the entire Western Hemisphere ) from its discovery in Egypt at Memphis in the early 20th century, its subsequent transport to Philadelphia concluding with a behind the scenes look at the engineering and human effort involved in moving such an object, both monumental and priceless in today's world. What is a Sphinx? What did a Sphinx represent to the ancient Egyptians? How did they move it? Let's find out!
Presented by Dr. Steve
Dr Stephen. R. Phillips. Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.