Who Broke Off the Sphinx’s Nose?
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A waaaaaay bigger sphynx parent saying "I got your nose!!!" The sphynx has been crying ever since.
it's Obelix who broke the Sphinx's nose, everybody knows this... 😂😂😂😂
Oh damn, I wanted to say that!
Yes!
This is the truth.
Dam it, someone already said it..
@@henrimichelpierreplana4332 lol
No one nose.
Well it wasn’t me, so don’t look at me like that.
"This is why we can't have nice things!" Ha ha ha!!😅
I pictured a mother scolding a child that had broken some porcelain piece in the living room. (Maybe from Simon's childhood.) Made me chuckle.
Thank you very much for fixing the the audio dips in your videos.. It's much better now!
A video about Napoleonic France, that doesn't focus on the wars, would be really interesting.
What else would you focus on? Napoleonic France lasted as long as its wars.
Pas faux! @@tilongatao
@tilongatao I'd kinda be interested in what he did that made them like him enough that they let him return, and then elected his nephew president before letting him become emperor. They aren't exactly known for putting up with bad leaders.
@@mwolkovei am i no way educated on this topic, but from my little knowledge, I always assumed they realized Napoleon, tyrannical though he may have been, offered them a better deal than their new leaders.
It’s intentional removed. The Egyptology exhibit at the Louve has children’s toys, small figurines and statues and the nose has been brushed off of every item.
It’s crazy to me that people can literally be told that there are written accounts from before Napoleon was alive that the nose was broken off and people in the comments will still argue. Access to knowledge in your hand and you still choose to believe what your mom told you at the kitchen table #iykyk
It’s amazing to me that people can be told the exact opposite of what they were told before and believe it because they don’t like the idea that their ancestors could’ve been so stupid and wicked and vile. Even though they have followed in the footsteps of those very same people. blame it on somebody else right? Ha ha ha your history is your résumé and it’s been a long and horrible.
@@galenbailey3630I'm English and I agree with you alot of my people are like that.
@@galenbailey3630Racist
According to Doctor Who, there's a Dalek buried under there...
Anything stated by Zahi Hawaass ahould not be taken too seriously. He's had a long history of adapting evidence to fit his stated dates and has ruined the careers of many Egyptologists who've worked under him and contradicted his dates.
Yes, dude is actually a pagan. He trying to to pretend like we have no History so that we associate Egypt with Arabs. It’s all to legitimize NA as being always a part of the Middle East.
Graham Hancock, Randall Carlson, the younger dryas- the truth is out there!!!! We don’t truly even know who or how the pyramids were built
Zahi Hawass is the purveyor of the filtering process for historical facts intentionally turned fiction
what a useless idiot. How many Docs were shown with this guy spitting out his own lying narrative. What a FRAUD!
I love the background that it has been excavated and reclaimed by the sand many times. One wonders when the sands will next reclaim the Sphinx.
You got me thinking there could be even more lower down.
This theory I heard at The Metropolitan Museum of Art was particularly intriguing. The sphinx was actually and image of Hatshepsut and every single image of her was attempted to be effaced from history after she died by the next god king after her. The sphinx was not the only image whose nose was removed.
Problem with that theory is that Hatshepsut reigned around 2000 years after when the Sphinx is believed to have been built, however the idea that it was defaced by someone who didn’t like whichever Pharaoh it represented seems likely as it happened numerous times throughout Egyptian history.
The head was changed from a lion.... NOW I SEE WHY GRAM HANDCOCK HATES "YOU" PEOPLE
@@jamestopple3576 An alternative theory was that it was originally a dog. As in god Anubus, constellation Canis Major. Graham Hancock has been interesting, but he is equally inflexible. No one really knows.
The white European broke off the Nubian nose off of many statues that were to large to steal.
@@kitefan1yeah for sure... but bet it orginally was one or the other... lion or like you stated - a dog (Anubus). all i know, i hope in my lifetime these Egyptians mysteries will be finally be debunked - notably the dates on the Pyramids, their orginal functions & purpose... etc etc. Really hoping they will dig under the Sphinx and see whats under it... & finally explore.check out the supposed closed-off chambers in the Great Pyramid. (I REALLY WANT TO KNOW SO SO BAD!!!!! lol)
I believe geologists and Egyptologists have fought a "battle" about the actual age of the sphinx where the geologists (according the weathering pattern) suggested that the pattern clearly indicated that the body was weathered by rain precipitation (vertically so to speak) and therefore must be at least 10000 years old when Egypt had a much wetter climate that the desert it is today.
The Egyptologists countered that by asking them for evidence of a civilization who were capable of doing such stonework by showing "pot shards" or anything that would suggest that the Egyptologists were wrong... (In my opinion trivial, because they themselves don't have any compelling evidence to tie the construction to Chefren / Chufa)
Also the stele talks about one repairing the sphinx rather than constructing it.
The evidence of Khufu (Chufu) building the Giza pyramids makes me look at a lot of Egyptology with a heavy pinch of salt. Ditto the weather patterns.
ONE geologist did, at the behest of a new age weirdo. That particular geologist just happens to have a side hustle in writing new age books.
That's not particularly accurate in that it's only one geologist, along with a 20th century mystic and a copywriter turned author. And said geologist is well known for pushing pseudoscientific ideas and selling books.
There were also never any real arguments over this as there is far more evidence supporting it's construction around 2500 BCE, and zero evidence of any Egyptian society around 8000 BCE with the know how or propensity for carving massive monoliths. In fact, there's very little archeological evidence left over from that time at all, which would be very unusual had there been a more technologically advanced society living in the region at the time. It isn't untill 2000 years later, around 6000 BCE, that pottery begins showing up in the archeological record.
All of that is without even mentioning that the water erosion hypothesis is nearly always linked to the "lost civilization" of Atlantis, because of course it is. Some people aren't great at wrapping their minds around the context of Plato's writing.
The base of the Sfinx was already there and cutted the head out of it.
Even 10k years is nothing, hardly much difference
In Elementary school (1960s) we were taught it was vandalized during the Arab Invasion.
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Perhaps Christian iconclasts vandalised it during the time of the Eastern Roman empire when polytheism was outlawed.
Arab invasion lol. Very true. Sounds like my history books.
@@view1st Perhaps🤔
Considering how many pagan iconographies, temples and sacred sites were obliterated in the middle East. It'd check out, for sure. Tbf. Side note: The Kaaba isn't by any means the only one. There used to be many. The one we know today, was originally a site of divination rituals. Firing arrows and reading were/how they land. The others were, also destroyed, by the Islamic conquests. I can't remember off top my head why that one was kept and ordained as such. But it was deemed to be sacred (I think something to do with location between the 'close' and 'far' mosques. Back when there was only a couple)
One of the highlights of my life (so far) is visiting the Spinks and the pyramids
I’d love to go see the sphinx and pyramids but the Middle East is a complete mess and I would be in fear for my life the whole time I was there.
@@cotati76that sucks.
So you did it?
Weren't you constantly harassed by guys trying to sell you things that you didn't want?
So, how is Leon these days? I thought he was dead!
The nose was so broad, it offended Europeans
Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr was not european
Racist
your people wouldn't know history or anything else of any worth if it wasn't for them Europeans. you put them on a pedestal with your inferiority complex 😊
@@andrewosborn1451u know segregation was 60 years ago right?
Because it was a 'Black' nose, & the Bankers (thru their power of Gov's & the Army) didnt want the World to see the Powerful symbols of Black peoples Great Acheivements around the Globe😪.Na i dont like it,but its what it is!
Peace
I have enjoyed this channel's format for some time . The narrator has an interesting energy when speaking . I do have one suggestion. When the narrator reaches a period in the text that they stop and Breath . It often creates many run on sentences .
The theory that I've heard most is similar to the ritual explanation you spoke of but slightly different. The way I've heard it, the ancient Egyptians believed that the spirits of the dead could inhabit anything bearing their likeness, so it was a common practice for subsequent rulers to deface carvings of their predecessors to take away their power, most commonly removing the nose (and indeed I have seen documentation of a great many ancient Egyptian statues that were missing their noses).
Likeness is stored in the nose.
Not exclusively E-i-e-i-Elio, but the nose is a lot of our likeness there.
The noses are broken off old statues because its basically the only part that sticks out and can easily be broken off by accident, erosion, vandalism...
Statues weren't even made to the actual likeness of any Pharaoh, so it wouldn't make sense to deface them for that reason... It would be better to just chisel away their NAME inscriptions and repurpose it as your own statue....
If a statue falls over it will most likely break at the neck or the nose will be the first to hit the ground and chips off.... super simple to figure out lol
@@reptilian_geneticist So your argument is that the Sphinx fell over? Or that every other defaced statue in Egypt happened to fall over in EXACTLY the right way so that they replicate the damage done to the Sphinx? Sure . . .
The sphinx has African features, you can clearly see them even without the nose 🙄
I started this episode and then decided it required snacks, because I desire to pay attention and retain this knowledge. Thanks, Simon ( and crew ) for keeping UA-cam interesting
What kind of snacks?
@@chrisbuckley1785 a bowl of fresh grapes and some Reese's peanut butter pumpkins.
The irony is, that the Sphinx only survived because it was buried in the sand for most of its existence.
Sorry I did it, but I’ll superglue it back on.
You're being very tardy. Get on with it.
I respect your honesty
9:43 so a 15th century historian mentions that the Sphinx was already noseless in his time, but people still believe it was Napoleon? Does that mean that Napoleon is a time traveller? He cannot be immortal, he died from airborne arsenic poisoning...
11:10 how surprising. /s
I bet Doctor Who had something to do with the broken nose.
Him, or Bill & Ted
@@toymachine2328 🤣 I did not think of them 🤣
I thought it was Sherman and Peabody that did it.
@@AJWRAJWR 😅
Who is Doctor Who
Ah yes thanks for clearing that up. I was always told it was the frogs as well.
In USA in 4th grade we were told the French did it.
I've heard a hypothesis that the Sphinx was originally a jackal until some Pharaoh usurped it by carving his face on it.
Voldemort jealous that even a statue has a nose, so he shot it off. Can’t convince me otherwise 😂
Come on Simon, everyone knows it was the aliens! Open your eyes whistle boy!
Thank you for the videos 👍👍
It would definitely have to be an alien that turned pharoah kafre into a cave lionen or cave lionen snake like osiris, though I've become less certain about alien mummies after recently hearing about a prior bat with wings or something glued on as a prior alien from the source.
While the pyramid of menkaure was vandalized by... al-aziz uthman, saladin's son and sultan of egypt, even though it would of been a heavy nose, probably likely, as alot of crennalations seem to hold together well enough. Not sure if anybody's a fan of too much monkey business though.
@@michaelborror4399 You do know they were bring facetious, right?
No one ever brings up the fact that lions don't actually sit like that, or that it bears more similarity to the body of a jackal. Anubis?
Someone took its nose.... and never gave it back. FOR SHAME!
Goofy grandpas everywhere are outraged! 😂
The Sphinx cut off its own nose to spite its face.
“Cutoff your nose to spider face!” _ Michael Scott
I can see it now, "Pawn Stars" seller, "I have the Sphinx's nose." Expert verified the nose. Rick says, "I take all the risks. Not a lot of people want the nose of a Sphinx. I'll give you $500 for it, not a penny more.
The Great Sphinx of Giza is in Egypt which is in Africa. The face of the Sphinx of Giza is irrefutably Black African. Since Greeks and Romans represent themselves as non-Black African in Greek art and in Roman art, why would any of those groups go to Egypt and, or when in Egypt, erect the largest sculpture in the place in the image of a people who don't look like either one of them? Make it make sense.
Even right here in the United States, a land not original to the Anglican, Mount Rushmore has not one face chiseled into it that is representative of the indigenous peoples of this land. If the indiginous peoples could recapture complete control of this continent, I am confident that one of the first, if not the first, monument to come down will be Mount Rushmore. But the Black African head of the Sphinx of Giza persists in spite of vandalization of the nose and lips.
Well said👏👏👏
I remember Aladdin and Jasmin on the magic carpet causing the issue 😂
I wonder if it broke off during construction, which is why there's evidence that it was abandoned before it was completed
Clearly a wild NosePass found the Sphinx intimidating and had to assert dominance
Ok, I confess. It was I who broke the nose off the Sphinx.
How old are you?
“We may never know who **defaced** the sphinx…” ;)
I was in Egypt recently and saw The Sphinx about two weeks ago. My Egyptologists tour guide explained that it was due to an earthquake is how it lost its nose and cobra.
Did your guide tell you the joke about how the Egyptians like to blame the Europeans and the Europeans blame the Egyptians?
“Egyptologist” 😂.
The Sphinx's uncle did it in an overly aggressive game of "I've got your nose."
LOVE YOUR VIDEOS/Classes! Man, can you slow down a little for us old folks? LOL
Noooooooo! It's so much fun using the UA-cam speed adjustment on Simon's voice.
@@marksnow7569LOL
Isn't it quite obvious who's responsible, I mean look at that guy in the thumbnail.. sitting inches from the crime-scene, looking guilty as a gremlin.
"It now resides in the British museum in London..." yeah, I was waiting for that.
Oh timestamp?
10:55 @@tikimillie
Safer that way
The lack of proportionality of the head to the body has always puzzled me, it's not typical of the quality of Egyptian artistry and engineering and I'd like to know the story there - perhaps there was a structural failure on the original (proportional) head and this was the best they could do to correct it, but the flaw in the stone remained and affected the nose.
Take a look at the leopard in king Tut's tomb. Was that made in proportion? What about Akhenaten statue?
it originally had the head of a dog not a cat. It aligned with a constellation that corresponds to a dog.
@@RussXDX Not actually true, this is a common rumor with no historical basis.
The sphinx was carved out of the bedrock directly. As the artisans initially started carving it out, they found that the limestone deeper down was lower quality than the limestone they started carving, and there was a large natural fissure in the bedrock. They increased the size of the body to make it sturdier so that the fissure and the weight of the head wouldn't cause it to crumble.
@@RussXDX
It's true, there's no proof the head was recarved.
Thank you for your videos.
That thing has microcephaly. It originally had a lions head because, of all things, it's a lion. The zodiac sign of Leo the lion rose directly in front of it when it was built.
Asterix Comics, that's exactly where my mind goes first
A+ vid again.
Just came to the comments to look at all the misspellings of sphinx. I was not disappointed.
This is filled with so much information. Im surprised though that the
Many
Ancient Egyptian artifacts with missing noses, was not brought up?🤔
There are images strewn across the internet? It is somewhat of a mysterious phenomenon?
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Love the Egyptian history videos
I always thought that the Egyptian tomb robbers broke the noses off because the thought that stopped the spirit of the dead getting revenge.
I actually thought that it might have been natural erosion, the nose just being such a heavy protrusion that just enough erosion at the base would be enough for the weight of itself to break it off. Obviously, if there are signs of drilled holes, that idea falls apart. Besides the ritual significance, if one's likeness on Earth was defaced or disfigured, it was believed that it would affect one's self in the afterlife. If it was modeled after some pharao that became controversial in a later rule, that could be the reason.
Erosion in a desert ,jackass.
Great video keep it up you're doing amazing things 😁👍
The Sphinx couldn’t smell anything. That stinx 😂
It looked at me wrong... talking smack... I had to teach it a lesson.
I’m not entirely convinced the current head is the original head that was carved on the original body. I think this current head was carved out of a larger one that was originally created.
Well done Simon, lot of facts perfectly delivered
Finally Simon, on a Simon channel.
If you look at many other statues in Egypt, they also had their noses struck off. It was something the new pharoah (or his temple priests) did to the previous pharoah's likenesses. This predates Napoleon by aeons.
Of course, everybody knows that. Tell me something I don't know. Lol. A lot of people do not know history and your statement is exactly true. They did this to bring in a new supreme leader by defacing all statues of the previous Pharaohs. Ramses was famous for this.
Bbb but but Louis Farrakhan
sphinx may have been of Hopsetsut destroyed in this manner on purpose so I have heard from a couple of historians.
@@thespicemelange.1are you an AI bot?
That is false and makes no sense. But keep the white wash theory strong
You tell an amazing story,love your work.
Except this one. John Anthony Shock was the 1st to discover the orosion on the Sphinx is over 11,000 years old. Humans did NOT build the pyramids. We still can't today...
Great episode!
I was told as a child that the nose was destroyed during the French invasion of Egypt during the Napoleonic Wars by a French artillery crew who literally blew it i off.
I had always believed that it was weather or nature related that had knocked the nose off. Interesting theories ... thanks for the video Simon ❤
Sounds about white
Don't worry Simon will get his sphinx in six centuries from next week 😅😅
@@duncancurtis5108boh god, Imagine a Sphinx with Simons face
@meisteremmu would have a point if not for all the missing noses from everything else there lol. Its not like that was an isolated incident lol.
@meisteremm no, but we can take an educated guess someone had a nose issue. If u walk into a house and see it burned to the ground and see someone outside with gas and matches, u don't have to be there to make an educated guess as to what happened.
We all know it was Obelix breaking off the nose, stop lying!
Pfft we have visual "proof" that it was Aladdin and the Sultan's daughter flying by on a magic sentient carpet that distracted an unnamed construction worker who accidently broke the nose off.
Wtf is CE
I think it was Emo Philips who joked, “My girlfriend reminds me of the Sphinx, she got her nose shot off by the French.” 😂
The stela says they reused the pyramid not built. The sphinx and pyramids preceded both Khafre and Khufu. It is clear why the nose was destroyed...furthermore it was originally an anubis that was recarved into a head. Push that prominent block near the right ear
Until its nose is found, the Sphinx should be fitted with giant Groucho glasses, complete with nose and mustache. Also, a giant cigar in its paws, and a plaque that reads "Sex at my age is like trying to shoot pool with a rope."
As a kid I remember thinking that if Egyptian gods had a human body and animal head, it would make sense that the reverse would also exist.
I am half animal from the waist down... All the way down... Were you thinking about that when you were a kid? It's kind of messed up
If Memory Serves: Napoleon!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Sphinx was NOT built by Kafre; the Sphinx is thousands of years older than what we think of Ancient Dynastic Egypt. The weathering of the Sphinx enclosure dates back to a period of intense rainfall that is closer to the Younger Dryas time period.
No, the base of the sphinx was already there and had the shape of a lions body due to errosion. They carved the head out of the rest of the stone structure
It seems to be on the Narmer Palette. That’s dated in 3100 BCE. It may portray it having been uncovered from the sand . Perhaps there are papyrus reeds on the back. So every thousand or two years it is covered in sand
I thought it was a preexisting rock formation turned into the face
We don't know the age of the Sphinx. Most estimates are in the 2500 to 4000 BC range. The claim of water erosion as evidence of even greater antiquity has been debunked. The erosion is due to capillary action that draws water from the nearby Nile aquifer. The Younger Dryas occurred between 12,900 and 11,700 years ago. Gobeckli Tepe and Karahan Tepe in southwest Turkey are the only large stone structures from around that time that have been discovered, and they are not close to the size or sophistication of the Sphinx. People have always been fascinated by the idea of a mysterious prehistoric advanced civilization lost to history. While it may be true, there isn't any persuasive evidence.
The sphinx was originally made as a lions head but but after thousands of years of erosion kafre had it remodeled to look like him
Simon's choice of topics might be better served by individual specialists from many different fields. But he really puts a lot of care into his research, and pronounces each word correctly, in a way that today's AI-generated UA-cam content cannot begin to duplicate. On top of it all, he seems to be enjoying himself.
They say it was broken because it depicted s strong black african nose.
Oops!
Sorry... I couldn't control my Sputnik. 😳
Do this on Decoding the Unknown!
8:29 facts…
The Asterix explanation is the best, and I think most probably correct!
Though it was Obelix who actually broke off the nose
@@wouter.de.ruiter Didn't they just distract the sculptor? Or were there different versions?
Was going to say the same. I remember hearing somewhere that Napoleon was responsible but I don't think that one is very credible. Haven't watched the video yet.
@@kaltaron1284
It broke of 3 times, I think.
Once in the comics, once in an animated movie and once in live action.
@@MrEnte3000 That's one accident-prone nose.
I like the new theory presented by geologist, and many egyptologyst are agreeing with.
The sphinx predated the egyptians by thousands of years back when the Sahara was jungle and grassland.
The sphinx was a huge lion carving.
As the Sahara was turning into desert the loin got covered by the sand lost till the egyptians at the time discovered it.
Might had had damage to the lions head and body being sand stone, they might had decided to carve the pharohs head into it instead.
But being sand stone the nose could had just broke off before being buried by sand again.
That large thousands of years ago.
@@corning1
With all the eroding sand stone, it is hard to date when it was made. Not like if it was granite
I always wondered about this.
I heard that the Sphinx was originally an Anibus but over time, it got worn or broken and some king is like, "Ima make it's face look like me!"
How if anything Ammit the god devourer of death.
Anibus? ... Anubis? Did you mean him?
Because Anubis has a human body and a dog head, so how would one turn a human body with a dog head into a cat body sitting loaf-style with a human head? Even if it used to be much bigger, I'm not sure how that would have started as a man body.
@@Infamous-causeAmmit makes more sense agreed
@@nivision yeah Ammit is a crocodile with a lion's mane and front body with the behind of a hippo.
It's Leo from the Annunaki engineers.
Wasn’t me. I was out of town. 🤠
Ok, your alibi checks out.
And all these years i thought the nose had been eroded away by sandstorms over the millennia
“And this is why we can’t have nice things.” 😂
Wasn't there a new theory that the spinx's head was something else before it was re-carved into a human head?
Dog or Lion.
You didn't explain how the pieces of the sphinx nose found their way into the british museum????
I mean… brits
Why did you basically copy the same video by Ancient Marvels? Same points, same pictures.....
Nah man, the sphinx just sneezed too hard
When someone makes me mad I just ask them:
"Why don't you make like the sphinx's head and flake off?"
You said it, Simon this is why we cannot have nice things!
Hancock proposed that the sphinx predates the pyramids by a considerable margin and could be as much as 8000 years old. He suggested that this is proven by erosion patterns on the sound that are more akin to water erosion. That area only had a climate able to do that some 8000 years ago.
I knew The British Museum was going to be involved somehow😂
They’re very good at calling dibs.
nearly all of the statues have noses missing i guess they
even knew the aliens stink 😂
I can mail you the Sphinx's nose, but you have to send me Target gift cards
This is why there's an Internet.
Thanks for another dose of fascination, Simon!
Clearly the work of ufo's and little green men, no? 😋
I think it was once Anubis. When the long snout broke off it was re carved. To the head of a man. Note the long legs. Just a theory
Kafu always said, "There's no stopping the future." No wait. Oh yea. That was Yogi Bara.
The reasons I've heard are, that gravity took the nose. It was a weak structure and just fell off. The other reason was a British or French officer used it as a target.
12:22 Sewage? I guess the Sphinx should be glad it doesn't have a nose! 🙂
4:10 I've never seen a spotted lion before🤔