Books like Sphinx by Peter Webb

Dan Brown's bestselling mystery‑thriller introduces college professor Robert Langdon as he unravels a Vatican conspiracy involving secret societies, ancient symbols, and a single day’s frantic chase that blends history, architecture, and intrigue.

Dan Brown’s thriller follows symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu as they race through Paris to solve a murder at the Louvre, uncovering a conflict between the Priory of Sion and Opus Dei over a controversial religious secret.

The Lost Symbol follows Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon as he unravels a conspiracy in Washington, D.C., using Freemasonry and cryptographic puzzles to uncover hidden truths.

Cotton Malone, a retired Justice Department operative turned antiquarian bookseller, is drawn back into a perilous treasure hunt for the lost riches of the Knights Templar, pursuing a rival of assassins and uncovering a conspiracy that could alter the modern world.

Inside New York City's Metropolitan Museum of Art, the sphinx of the Pharaoh Hatshepsut holds court. But how did this ancient artifact get to the museum?

Extensive portrait of the artist written by a woman who lived with him for 11 years and was the mother of two of his children.

Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) is known as one of the most important figures in French Impressionism, but few people know that a Danish Golden Age painter played an important role in the origins of the Impressionist movement. Through the exhibition 'Pissarro. A meeting on St. Thomas', Ordrupgaard tells the story of Pissarro?s early years, and of how the Danish Golden Age painter Fritz Melbye (1826-1869) came to play a crucial role in Pissarro?s life and art.0'Pissarro. A meeting on St. Thomas' presents an extensive number of early works by Pissarro and Melbye, painted during their years together in the Danish West Indies and Venezuela. With paintings, sketches and drawings loaned from museums and collections around the world, the exhibition shows how Pissarro built upon his early years of learning with Melbye as his mentor, and how he applied these lessons in Impressionism.00Exhibition: Ordrupgaard, Charlottenlund, Denmark (10.03.-02.07.2017).

"The Great Sphinx of Giza is one of the few monuments from ancient Egypt familiar to nearly everyone. In a land where the colossal is part of the landscape, it still stands out, the largest known statue in Egypt. Originally constructed as the image of King Chephren, builder of the second of the Great Pyramids, the Sphinx later acquired new fame in the guise of the sun god Harmakhis. Major construction efforts in the New Kingdom and Roman Period transformed the monument and its environs into an impressive place of pilgrimage, visited until the end of pagan antiquity.". "Christiane Zivie-Coche, a Egyptologist, surveys the long history of the Great Sphinx and discusses its original appearance, its functions and religious significance, its relation to the many other Egyptian sphinxes, and the various discoveries connected with it. From votive objects deposited by the faithful and inscriptions that testify to details of worship, she reconstructs the cult of Harmakhis (in Egyptian, Har-em-akhet, or "Horus-in-the-horizon"), which arose around the monument in the second millennium. "We are faced," she writes, "with a religious phenomenon that is entirely original, though not unique: a theological reinterpretation turned an existing statue into the image of the god who had been invented on its basis."". "The coming of Christianity ended the Great Sphinx's religious role. The ever-present sand buried it, thus sparing it the fate that overtook the nearby pyramids, which were stripped of their stone by medieval builders. The monument remained untouched, covered by its desert blanket, until the first excavations. Zivie-Coche details the archaeological activity aimed at clearing the Sphinx and, later, at preserving it from the corrosive effects of a rising water table."--BOOK JACKET.