How did Sphinx lose its nose?
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The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the loss of the nose to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada in 1378, who found the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest and therefore defaced the Sphinx in an act
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White supremacy caused Napoleon to blow the nose off the Sphinx because it reminded [him] too much of the black man's majesty.
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