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Did Napoleon's troops shoot the nose off of the Sphinx in Egypt?
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No. There were drawings of the Sphinx without a nose before Napoleon's time. The Sphinx actually lost a considerable amount of its features in 1378 AD when a local Sufi Sheik thought the Sphinx to be idolatrous and attempted to blow it up with explosives. His name was Sayim al-Dahr. They did much the same thing in Afghanistan with some Buddhist images they did not like.
The other theory is that he went up there with a chisel since there are marking where the nose used to be that indicate that type of tool had been used to break off the nose.
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