Anti-white SJWs concocted a theory that Napoleon (who was a huge admirer of Egyptian history and a Freemason) shot off the sphinxes nose for target practice. This rumor was spread for decades until someone realized it was a lie. But Drawings of the Sphinx by Frederic Louis Norden in 1757 showed the nose missing and this anti-white theory was ass blasted and quietly hidden away. What really happened was Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada in AD 1378 found the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest and defaced the Sphinx in an act of iconoclasm.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Sphinx_of_Giza#Missing_nose_and_beard