Fake History hunting: Napoleon Bonaparte shot the nose off the Sphinx

In this short video I debunk the myth that Napoleon Bonaparte shot the nose off the Sphinx.
If you want to read more on the subject you can buy my book ‘Fake History: 101 Things that Never Happened’, it has a whole chapter on the subject.
More about that here:

As I said in the video: a video without references proves nothing, so here are mine:

Baumgarten, Siegmund Jakob, Beer, Ferdinand Wilhelm and Semler, JohannSalomo, A Supplement to the English Universal History . . . (E. Dilly, 1760)Greener, Leslie, The Discovery of Egypt (Viking Press, 1967)Heyman, Johannes and Egmond van der Nijenburg, Johannes Aegidiusvan, Travels Through Part of Europe, Asia Minor, the Islands of the Archipelago; Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Mount Sinai, &c . . . (L. Davis and C. Reymers, 1759)Mayer, Luigi, Views in Egypt, from the original drawings . . . (T. Bensley forR. Bowyer, 1805)Zivie-Coche, Christiane, Sphinx: History of a Monument (Cornell UniversityPress, 2004)Other helpful resources:

Music: Adventure Theme - Sir Cubworth

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[beamstalk]

You say Napoleon didn't have access to a time machine, but I have seen Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure and I know he did.

[WolfLykaios]

Like so many things Napoleon, I feel like this is one of those things the British said once and it then became widely accepted.

[daniellanctot]

*_It's highly probable that NO ONE broke it off: Statues are notorious for their noses and arms breaking with time and wear because they protrude from the main body of the statue and so are more vulnerable to the elements._*

[arcanics]

Fortunately I the first time I heard this ridiculous myth was from somebody debunking it, many years ago. So I didn't ever fall for it.

[ClaptrapsHero]

Excellent Video, and straight to the point. Thank You.

[Poppa]

yayayay you have a youtube channel! lets go

[MarquisForneus]

When Napoleon took over the Papal states he simply took the Catholic Churches time machine in order to destroy the Sphinx

[therealrooster]

Everybody knows it was Obélix wo broke the nose when he tried to climb the Sphinx.

[lorddevonshire]

It was almost certainly the Mahommedans.