I was going to mention about Napoleon's troops shooting the nose off the Sphinx, but did a search to confirm:

> ...he face of the Sphinx was vandalized in 1378 A.D. by Mohammed Sa'im al-Dahr, a "fanatical sufi of the oldest and most highly respected sufi convent of Cairo." [0]

[0] https://www.napoleon-series.org/faq/c_sphinx.html