Could ancient Nile floods rule out a 12,000-year-old Sphinx? The Great Sphinx sits close to the old Nile floodplain, and that detail may change how its age is understood. During the African Humid ...

Note: I said "more normal." The novel is about President Franklin D. Roosevelt — nicknamed the Yankee Sphinx — and his presidency in the later years of World War II. There was very little that was ...