[my_pointy_head_is_sharp]

In 1380 A.D. the Sphinx fell victim to the iconoclastic ardor of a fanatical Muslim ruler, who caused deplorable injuries to the head.

Some things never change. And never WILL change.

[muawiyah]

Amazingly, the Romans more than 1000 years earlier saw the same injuries and blamed them on the barbaric Greeks who came before them.

I suspect the early SOMA users defaced the Sphinx face shortly after its construction out of anger ovewr the destruction of one of their more symbolic seit stones.