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What Damaged The Sphinx?

egip123 From Egypt

Several theories

One legend has it that the nose was destroyed by a cannonball fired by Napoleon Bonaparte's soldiers. But several historians have attributed responsibility for the mutilation to the Mamelukes who occupied Egypt before Bonaparte's campaign.

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