It's a fairly common myth that Napoleon and his troops shot the nose off. Here's an article about the myth along with other possible reasons... https://www.na

It's a fairly common myth that Napoleon and his troops shot the nose off. Here's an article about the myth along with other possible reasons... https://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html https://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html Also amusingly enough, there is an asteroid named Sphinx (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/896_Sphinx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/896_Sphinx)