The evidence for this is an ivory sculpture, 31cm (12.2in) tall, depicting a hybrid creature, with a human body and a lion’s head, carved from the tusk of a mammoth 40,000 years ago.

A remarkable archaeological discovery has shed new light on the burial culture and beliefs of ancient Romans in Israel, the ...

The Capital once stood upon a 40-to-50-foot pillar, itself now reduced to fragments displayed within glass, outdoors. Indoors, we see the Capital in a way no one did two millennia ago.

EGYPT's Great Sphinx of Giza may originally have had the face of a lion, according a British team who claim they solved one of history's most puzzling riddles in 2008.

In 1980, the newly installed Islamic Republic replaced the Lion and Sun on the country’s tricolor flag with a tulip-shaped emblem—making both into potent political symbols.