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Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses? (2019)
- smoyer 7y agoThe Merriam-Webster dictionary lists the etymology of "defaced" as "Middle English, from Anglo-French desfacer, deffacer, from des- de- + face front, face". This doesn't really explain why the middl english and anglo-french words focused on the face. I wonder if down through history, the habit of destroying statue's faces (or Egyptian noses) led to this word.
- notlukesky 7y agoThere is no answer on why the Sphinx lacks a nose: https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/photo-what-happened-to-the-sphinxs-nose-180950757/ https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/photo-what-happened...