You could tell tumblr gullible is written on the ceiling and ´nobody would check.
- noses are the only part of the face that sticks out, meaning that if a statue falls over onto the face, that’s the part likely going to break. It also makes it it the most vulnerable part for erosion (be it by water wind or sand). Same goes for anything standing out, you may check all those greek statues for fingers and such at your leisure. Hell there are statues in the local baroque garden that have broken off fingers and they’re no 400 years old. Time and weather will do this to small, stick-out bits.
- You know who regularly went around chiseling the face of pharaohs out of stone? People ordered by new pharaohs. Do you wanna guess which skin color these people had? (hint: not white). Why? Because publicity. Sometimes also because defacing the statues/monuments had a symbolic aspect of destroying the memory of said person, and hence their eternal life (please compare what pharaoh Horemhab did to monuments of pharaoh Akhenaten).
- it’s not like greek or roman states came out of this unscathed. Two of the most famous statues are majorly damaged. I mean, the Nike of Samothrace has no head, and already had no head when it was found because the neck, like the arms is a frail point on a statue and thus can easily break of. Also the reason why the other really famous greek statue, the Venus of Milo (yes i know it should be Aphrodite, but that’s what she’s called, i didn’t pick it) has no arms. They simply broke off.
- oh, and the thing about the sphinx. You know when she was already missing that nose? In the 14th century. Allow me to quote a thing:
The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism.[32]
So, you know…. not white people. Not white people by a faaaaaaaaaaar call. So how about all of you hit google for like 5 minutes (literally, type in ‘sphinx missing nose’) before getting your self-righteous fury online.
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