[MaxRobespierre]

Originally Posted by dwizzy22 ↗

There is a story that the nose was broken off by a cannonball fired by Napoleon's soldiers, that still lives on today. Other variants indict British troops, the Mamluks, and others. Sketches of the Sphinx by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden, made in 1738 and published in 1757, show the Sphinx missing its nose.

Where are these drawings? I'd like to see them. The French expedition artists drew marvelous reproductions of the Antiquities.

[RUTHIE7]

Incredible photos!

I hope that someday someone would create a beautiful 'man made structure' that will eventually survive for a further 'thousand (plus) years' - a relic left behind that is 'as beautiful.'

(Just not our current ugly concrete cities and fetid roadways/passages)