For many years now, it’s been claimed that Napoleon Bonaparte had the nose blown off the Sphinx in Egypt to hide its African features. The story runs that the allegedly racist French leader, while leading a military campaign in Egypt, was shocked at the African appearance of the Sphinx.
Keen to maintain the myth of a non-African ancient Egypt, he disfig…
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