The Sphinx was a good looking fellow with a nose. The rumor why the nose isn't there is the troops of Napoleon Bonaparte used it for target practice and shot it off. But if they used the nose for target practice wouldn't the whole thing be gone? And why would Napoleon and his troops even use the nose for target practice. Did they not like it, did somebody give them money to use it for target practice or they about to go to war and they needed to do some target practice. The real truth about the sphinx we don't know if the nose got shot off or it fell off over time but the sphinx is still know for not having a nose