Editing Iconoclasm (section)

=== Egypt ===
[[File:Sphinx of Giza 9059.jpg|thumb|The [[Great Sphinx of Giza]]'s profile in 2010, without its nose]]
[[Al-Maqrīzī]], writing in the 15th century, attributes the missing nose on the [[Great Sphinx of Giza]] to iconoclasm by [[Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr]], a [[Sufi]] Muslim in the mid-1300s. He was reportedly outraged by local Muslims making offerings to the Great Sphinx in the hope of controlling the flood cycle, and he was later executed for vandalism. However, whether this was actually the cause of the missing nose has been debated by historians.<ref>{{cite web |title=What happened to the Sphinx's nose? |url=https://www.smithsonianjourneys.org/blog/photo-what-happened-to-the-sphinxs-nose-180950757/ |website=Smithsonian Journeys |publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]] |date=December 8, 2009}}</ref> [[Mark Lehner]], having performed an archaeological study, concluded that it was broken with instruments at an earlier unknown time between the 3rd and 10th centuries.<ref name=Lehner>{{Cite book|url=https://archive.org/details/sphinx00chri|title=Sphinx : history of a monument|first=Christiane|last=Zivie-Coche|year=2004|publisher=Ithaca : [[Cornell University Press]]|isbn=978-0801489549|via=Internet Archive}}</ref>