[RightOnline]

"Now, who blew the nose off the Sphinx. That'd probably be Imhotep - in fact, he erased the original face!"

Blame Napoleon. His cannoneers used the Sphinx for target practice, blowing off its nose.

[muawiyah]

No, no - Napoleon was several thousand years late to knock off the original nose. In fact, there was no nose at all by the time his guardsmen came on the job. They were just adding to the cratering when they fired at the Sphinx.