The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, composing during the early fifteenth century, attributes the lack of the nose to Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim within the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada in 1378, who located nearby peasants building offerings for the Sphinx in the hope of growing their harvest and thus defaced https://www.luxreisen.net/blog/beste-reisezeit-f%C3%BCr-hurghada