Checked: Napoleon didn't shoot the nose off the Sphinx.
Norden drew the Sphinx noseless in 1737, sixty-one years before the French expedition of 1798. The mutilation story goes back further: al-Maqrizi names Sa'im al-Dahr, 1378. And what is left of the nose shows drilled tool marks, not cannon fire.
Sourced check: https://paper.wf/jake-92
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Norden drew the Sphinx noseless in 1737, sixty-one years before the French expedition of 1798. The mutilation story goes back further: al-Maqrizi names Sa'im al-Dahr, 1378. And what is left of the nose shows drilled tool marks, not cannon fire.
Sourced check: https://paper.wf/jake-92
#egypt #egyptology #history #archaeology
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