27/09/2023
A rare picture of the Great Sphinx in Giza sinking into the sand in 1882 AD
The story of the Sphinx’s “cough”: Was it destroyed by “the eternally fasting person”?
A statue of a mythical creature, whose body is a lion and whose head is that of a human, has been sitting for thousands of years on the Giza Plateau, like a faithful guardian of the plateau. It represents King Khafre, who combines human strength and rule. It is the “Sphinx” statue, whose history differs from many historians. As for his “nose,” it has a long story, as they attributed it to a broken Napoleonic soldier, but Al-Maqrizi mentioned that the Sphinx’s nose was broken by someone because of his discretion, but what is the truth? ?
The Sphinx had a nose on display for the migrants, but this long nose was lost under mysterious circumstances. There is still a trooper used by Napoleon's war artillery
There are other rumors accusing the English, the Mamluks, or others. However, the drawings drawn by explorer Frederick Lewis Norden of the Sphinx in 1737 AD, and published in 1755 AD in his book “The Journey to Egypt and Nubia,” measured the statue without a nose, which negates this matter.
Sheikh of Egyptian scholars Al-Maqrizi has another opinion. Al-Maqrizi says that the Egyptians believe that the Sphinx is a “talisman of sand,” meaning that it is an amulet that prevents sand from creeping into an area and burying it. One day, a sheikh with estimates that Al-Maqrizi described as “expansionist,” and who claims “Muhammad Saim Al-Ahmar,” launched a campaign to remove evil, most notably the Sphinx. He remained fit to his weapon, until he contented himself with mutilating his mouth and nose, and the statue remains in this state to this day. this.
When Al-Hakim learned - in the year 781 AH - of his arrest, he cut him into pieces and ordered him to be buried next to the Sphinx. The strange thing is that after the weapons were fired, it began to advance into the area until it covered much of the territory of Giza, to which the Nile reaches.
Some believe that the first incident of the Sphinx's nose being broken was narrated by the traveler Al-Maqdisi in the 10th century, when he contributed in his book, "There is an idol that Satan used to enter and talk to with him until his nose melted," broken.
Al-Maqdisi mentioned the story of the “Sphinx” nose 500 years before Al-Maqrizi, and that Al-Maqdisi witnessed the incident of the “Sphinx”’s nose being broken in front of Al-Ahmar, unlike Al-Maqdisi. Al-Maqrizi, who began his works by narrating what previous historians had written before him, such as the historian Abd al-Latif al-Baghdadi, who described the face of the Sphinx. "Sphinx" is one of the most beautiful.