The ancient Greeks told tales about giant beings called Titans. The Titans one fought with the Greek gods and lost. So, the gods punished the Titans. Atlas’s punishment was to hold the sky up on his shoulders. He held the sky up for years and years.One Titan was named Atlas. Once, when Atlas was doing his “job”, Hercules came to him and asked him to find out some golden apples for him.... 

The Great Sphinx of Giza is a half-human, half-lion Sphinx statue in Egypt. But the nose of this Great Sphinx at Giza is made conspicuous by its absence. What happened to it? Although popular legend blames Napoleon and his troops during the French campaign in Egypt (1798-1801) for having shot the nose off the Great Sphinx, in fact this story just isn’t true. An article by Ulrich Haarmann, “Regional... 

The rulers of ancient Egypt, Pharaohs, were almost all men. The evidence for a few women Pharaohs is sketchy at best. One female Pharaos in Ancient Egypt was Hatshepsut. Although not the only female ruler of Egypt, Ma’at-ka-Ra Hatshepsut (1473-1458 BC) is one of the best known. She was an 18th dynasty Pharaoh, daughter of Thothmose I and Queen Ahmose. When her father died her half brother, Thothmose...