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Avenue of the Criosphinxes (ram-headed sphinxes) at the entrance of the great Temple Of Amun in the Karnak Temple Complex, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, in Luxor, Egypt. (Photo credit: Insights/Universal Images Group/Getty Images) A new Egyptian plan to transfer four sandstone Sphinxes to Cairo’s Tahrir Square exposes the artifacts to intense heat and air pollution, which threatens to damage them, according to experts and Egyptologists. The Egyptian Antiquities Ministry announced that the Sphinxes were taken down from the Karnak...