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- Llyod
who, without consulting wiki or the web, knows what happened to the sphinx's nose.
- silentseven0
Napoleon had his soldiers shoot the nose off for target practice
- arterie0
Napoleon's army used it for target practice. I remember from school?
- McFlooter0
blown off with a cannon during some war..... or maybe that was bullshit. not sure
- HelloMatt0
so.
how you gonna tell?The popular story is that the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte used the nose for target practice in 1798
- ********0
it was catapulted?
- ********0
a jew stole it
- Stevengine0
Its hangind on my living room wall above the fire place
- ********0
3000 years of erosion, aggravated by modern cairo´s nasty athmospheric conditions. and that other thing from the documentery I forgot about because it was really not that interesting. Can I have the +1 now?
- ********0
amy winehouse needed wider nostrils.
- NotByHand0
Same that happened to Michael Jackson's nose?
- Llyod0
The one-metre-wide nose on the face is missing. The Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the fifteenth century, attributes the vandalism to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism. Al-Maqrizi describes the Sphinx as the “Nile talisman” on which the locals believed the cycle of inundation depended.
Some legends claim that the nose was broken off by a cannon ball fired by Napoléon’s soldiers and that it still survives. Other variants indict British troops, Mamluks, or others. However, sketches of the Sphinx by Dane Frederick Lewis Norden made in 1737 and published in 1755 illustrate the Sphinx already without a nose.
- And you didnt check the web on this?Stevengine
- http://en.wikipedia.…........ from there maybeStevengine
- I always thought it was napoleon's troops too.Llyod
- ********0
BME: Why did you want your nose removed?
WITZ: I don't know, ever since I was a kid I imagined it. I don't know if they have anything to do with it, because it's the chicken and the egg, you know, but two things stand out. First, I remember watching Sesame Street episodes when I was very young, where Bert and Ernie would take their noses off, and it just really stuck with me, and I wished I could play that game... That, and my uncle always played "got your nose" with me and it was something I really remember fondly.
- chicks dig thatNotByHand
- very disturbing. and i dont get disturbed easily.********
- Consider his face spite-edlocustsloth
- good thing they have that black bar otherwise this guy with no nose! would be easily recognizedjacobdean
- you dont understand. that black bar is actually a part of his face.********
- dude's got problemsLlyod
- Please don’t tell me this was elective surgery.MrOneHundred
- fucking hellsureshot
- makes you wonder where he found a doc who would do thatLlyod
- great.. I overcame sleeping w lights on, after a tormented childhood by "The Sound of Music" now back to zeroMeeklo
- I cannot believe he stretched his lobes out like that. What is that going to look like when he's old?blaw
- it WAS in fact elective surgery.
fucked.lvl_13 - Lol, some people are just so retarded.********
- janne760
i have no idea.
will i be dismissed now?
- Fanco0
some cartoon character named Obélix climbed on top of it. because he's extremely big and fat, the nose broke. His friend, Astérix, then hid it underneath the Sphinx
- airey0
yeah, pretty sure it was obelix and asterix. obelix is a pretty fat bastard and he stood on it. Fanco is spot on.
- Llyod0
fanco wins +1
- isaacboy0
I thought all the artifacts were defaced due to a Pharaoh getting a strop on about changes to religion. Not sure about the sphinx though, going to see it in 2 weeks I'll ask lol...
