Egyptologists attack transfer of sphinxes to Tahrir Square
Site will expose sphinxes to air pollution and obscure Egypt’s recent protest history, say critics
The transfer of four sandstone sphinxes to Tahrir Square in Cairo will expose them to intense heat and air pollution and amounts to an attempt to erase Egypt’s recent history, Egyptologists and academics have said.
Officials from Egypt’s antiquities ministry recently announced that the ram-headed sphinxes had been taken from the Karnak temple in Luxor to
