A lot of ancient statues, not only Egyptian, have broken noses. Henry Fielding has a joke about it in A Journey From This World to the Next. The narrator, as is

A lot of ancient statues, not only Egyptian, have broken noses. Henry Fielding has a joke about it in A Journey From This World to the Next. The narrator, as is customary, pays his first visit in the next world to the disorder that killed him. Seeing the statues of famous victims, he imagines them antiques, but learns that, no, they are quite recent.