Why Did Whites Blow Off The Africoid Nose Of The Sphinx?

Question

Carved from a single rock, the Sphinx was a portrait of the Black Pharaoh Khafre (Cephren). The blatant, undeniable evidence of Black African achievement blew off the Africoid nose and part of the lips with cannon fire! Reporting on the “riddle” of the racial identity of the ancient Egyptians, Count C. Volney, a distinguished French scholar who visited Egypt in the late 1700's, wrote with astonishment “...when I visited the Sphinx, its appearance gave me the key to the riddle. Beholding that head typically ***** in all its features...” He later added “...the Egyptians were true Negroes of the same type as all native-born Africans.” The Sphinx’s broad nose and full lips are evident in an early drawing of the Sphinx as it was found in the 19th century.

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Answer 1

to further claim any lasting images of african cilivization related to egyptian culture being one in the same. french ruler napoleon did it.

Answer 2

I think that the nose of the Sphinx, just like any thing in a harsh desert environment simply cracked and fell off. The Egyptians had a fantastic civilization, does it really matter whether they looked more black or more like modern Egyptians.

The early European explorers were interested in finding out the secrets of Ancient Egypt. I wouldn't put it past them to loot and in the process destroy some ancient artifacts but I seriously doubt that there was some great conspiracy at that time to make the ancient Egyptians seem less "black".

Answer 3

Actually, there's no evidence that whites blew off the nose of the Great Sphinx, and as for your accounts from the late 1700s, Frederick Lewis Norden drew sketches of the Sphinx in 1737 without the nose. The truth is, no one knows how the Sphinx lost its nose.

Answer 4

Why do you say the whites did it?

The Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi, writing in the fifteenth century, attributes the vandalism to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi fanatic from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In 1378, upon finding the Egyptian peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose. Al-Maqrizi describes the Sphinx as the "Nile talisman" on which the locals believed the cycle of inundation depended.

Answer 5

The nose was actually copied from a movie still photograph of Jimmy Durante.

Answer 6

Talk about your rascist questions. Just automatically assume it was whites. Forget the fact thet WHITE scientists have been studing it for years to determin what it once looked like and what happened to it , along with scientists of different races from around the globe. It has been suggested anything from water to wind erosion messed up the nose. And through the centries it has had different faces, one time it was thought to look like a lion.

Answer 7

i can inform you what's smart. Alexander the entire. He spent maximum of his time destroying the nostril of thousands of paintings in additional effective than purely Egypt. once you commence searching at each and every of the destroyed paintings in that area i have in my opinion come to the proper that Alexander become to blame for it. it is his calling card.

Answer 8

Because, as the sphinx is crouching, we could not blow off its Africoid genitalia.

By the way, when you lost your genitalia, did it hurt?

Answer 9

Wasn't it the Ottomans that did that? I could be wrong, it's been years since I studied Egypt.

Answer 10

Because they could.