The Argyle Sweater by Scott Hilburn for October 19, 2014
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Transcript:
Man: Your snoring is waking up the pharoah! If this doesn't work, we'll have to try something a little more drastic.
However it is generally accepted that what happened to the nose is as the Egyptian historian al-Maqrizi wrote in the 15th century.
He says that the nose was destroyed in, 1378, by a Sufi fanatic by the name of Muhammad Sa’im al-Dahr, who enraged by the lifelike representation of a human face he ordered the nose removed as it was something that was expressly forbidden by Islam.
There is some evidence suggests that this may very well be the case as there are tool marks where the nose was suggesting it was broken or levered-off.