and constantly provoked the “waves” that now cover the entire body. Several times, the Sphinx had to be sand; Auguste Mariette began to emerge in 1853 and the last date of sand in 1925.
The man is also responsible for maiming, particularly with regard to its enigmatic smile, damaged by blows to canon ordered by a sheikh of the FOURTEENTH century. What these firing cannon casserent wig beard and nose has never been demonstrated. The beard is at the British Museum, which refuses to make it to Egypt, and the nose was not recovered.
Part of the right shoulder had collapsed in 1988, his neck being fragile, work to save the Sphinx took place in 1989. Since April 2006, a restoration of the Sphinx is big business, hoping to correct errors (use of cement to restore the statue) of previous restorations of the monument.
Origin of the mutilation of the nose
The legend was that the nose of the Sphinx was destroyed by the soldiers of Napoleon during the campaign of Egypt. When we know the work done by Napoleon to list all the arts events in Egypt, we realize the legendary character of these assertions In a speech in 1995, the American black activist Louis Farrakhan takes this legend, in an Afrocentric, believing that “white supremacy led Napoleon to destroy the Sphinx’s nose because he too recalled the majesty of the black man
Historians had long believed that those responsible for the mutilation of the nose of the Sphinx was the Mamelukes who occupied Egypt for several centuries before being beaten by troops Bonaparte. Engravings dating from before the campaign in Egypt also show the sphinx without its nose confirming that the mutilation preceded the arrival of French soldiers.