The largest ancient sphinx in the Western Hemisphere was on the prowl Wednesday, June 12, for the first time in nearly 100 years. Philadelphia’s Penn Museum relocated its 3,000-year-old sphinx of Pharaoh Ramses II from the Egypt gallery, where it had resided since 1926, to a featured location in the museum’s new entrance hall. Museum officials, on the other hand, were a little more animated. “We needed something very powerful right when you walked into this renovated space, and that is when we said, ‘What a shame we can’t have the sphinx here. “This move was so carefully orchestrated,” said associate curator Jennifer Houser Wegner, who co-wrote a book on the sphinx.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer June 13, 2019 13:51 UTC