Riddles of the Sphinx

6:00pm

For nearly 5,000 years, the Great Sphinx of Egypt has been one of the world’s most recognized structures. But the years have taken its toll, and the face of the mysterious Pharaoh is being sandblasted by the elements into oblivion, while its limestone lion’s body is dissolving. Nova follows a group of archeologists and engineers as they try to save the Sphinx, while also trying to solve the age-old riddles of ‘who is the Sphinx?” and “what did it symbolize?”