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Day 60 -> What Happened to the Nose of the Sphinx of Giza?

7/19/2013

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The Sphinx of Giza with one of the great pyramids in the background (Image by Egito Turismo)
    Archaeologists don't know for sure. One teory claims it happened in the 18th century, when a cannon ball hit the Sphinx during some war. If this is true, then the soldier who controlled the cannon had a really good aim! Another teory says that ancient people made offerings to the statue to have a good harvest and somebody, for some reason, destroyed the Sphinx's nose to have more success, perhaps. I wonder how the bystanders, seing what such person was doing, didn't try to stop him/her, if that was really the case.
     Well, I still blame the missing nose on Obelix.
~Ally
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