When did the sphinx's nose in Egypt fall off?

Answer 1

The weathering and erosin made the Sphinx nose fall off. And people in Egypt say they found part of the beard between his paws.

Over time many theories have been brought forward to explain the disappearance of the great Sphinx of Giza's nose.

However it is generally accepted that what happened to the nose is as the Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi wrote in the 15th century.

He says that the nose was destroyed in, 1378, by a Sufi fanatic by the name of Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, who enraged by the lifelike representation of a human face he ordered the nose removed as it was something that was expressly forbidden by Islam.

There is some evidence suggests that this may very well be the case as there are tool marks where the nose was suggesting it was broken or levered-off.

The most generally accepted case is that the Ottoman Mamelukes, despotic Islamic overlords of Egypt,shot the nose off the Sphinx, using it as target practice.

Answer 2

God hated egyptians so he went to earth and sliced it with his almighty sword of rightiousness

Actually, the nose was shot off by the ancient Napoleans, when the self centered idiots used it as target practice.

Answer 3

The Egyptian Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the fifteenth century CE, attributes the loss to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In 1378 CE, 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.

Answer 4

The blame lies with a 14th century sheik who, having found out that the local people were making offerings to it, tried to destroy it completely. Unfortunately for him, the Sphinx remained standing, but his explosives caused some damage to the monument.

Answer 5

erosion

Answer 6

erosion