g) The Sphinx was carved out a natural outcropping of limestone. It's 241 feet/73.5 meters in length and reaches 65 feet/20 meters in height. The face is believed to be that of Khafre. What happened to it's nose? One popular story is that it was shot off by one of Napoleon's troopers. However, Frederick Lewis Norden, an artist and marine architect sketched the Sphinx in 1737. His detailed drawings, published in 1755, showed the Sphinx with no nose. It is very unlikely that he would omit the nose if it was present. We can conclude that the nose's removal can not be blamed on Napoleon's troops, who visited more than 50 years later.
All throughout egypt though, we see many statues where the nose's have been removed. This was a common way of defacing statues.