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Sunday, July 28, 2013
One of the oldest photos of the Great Sphinx, from 1880
I remember hearing a story about a German tank squad blowing the nose off the Sphinx during WWII and that is the reason why the nose was gone. Myth apparently.
Scratch that. A little research showed it was a Muslim Sheik who had the nose removed more than likely. There are drawings of the sphinx without a nose from 1737 as well. Long before Napoleons time.
Yeah, I guess there are a lot of old myths... I think I heard that one before the internets came along and information was only in the form of a book or periodical...
I thought it was a French Artillery crew during Napoleons Egyptian campaign.
ReplyDeleteScratch that. A little research showed it was a Muslim Sheik who had the nose removed more than likely. There are drawings of the sphinx without a nose from 1737 as well. Long before Napoleons time.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I guess there are a lot of old myths... I think I heard that one before the internets came along and information was only in the form of a book or periodical...
DeleteThe Germans never got closer than 100 miles when they were stopped at El-Alamein in October of 1942.
DeleteYea the internet where "You can only believe 50% of the internet 30% of the time."- Abraham Lincoln
ReplyDeleteI've a Mandela Effect like memory of seeing motion picture footage of the Sphinx's nose getting blown off.
ReplyDeleteNear as I've been able to find, it's a totally made up recollection.