Re:Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearth...
by mojomark on Saturday January 29, 2022 @11:19PM
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I wonder if the noses on Mount Rushmore faces will fall off in the next millennium.
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Re:Long-lost sphinxes of Egyptian king Amenhotep III unearth...
by ncmncm on Sunday January 30, 2022 @01:34AM
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We can but hope.
On my schedule for demolishing ill-conceived stonework, that cliff face in Atlanta is top of the list.
I have read suggestions that the nasal obliteration we see in classical sculpture is deliberate sabotage by successors and, more comprehensively, by general orders under Islam's stricture against figurative representation. I don't know how much credence to put in it, vs. natural tendency for cantilevered bits to fall off. But it seems like noses fare strictly worse than other projections.