Who broke the Sphinx's nose?

Who broke the Sphinx's nose?

It is one of the oldest huge sculptures in the world with a length of about 73.5 meters, including 15 meters the length of its front legs, and its width 19.3 meters, and the highest height above the surface of the earth about 20 meters to the top of the head, a lot puzzled about the reality of the character that was symbolizing it, as well as raised Many questions and narratives about the reason for breaking his nose to become the way the statue is currently located.

4 novels about the fact that the nose of the mysterious statue was broken

1- Napoleon artillery:

The nose of the Sphinx was destroyed by artillery by the soldiers of the French campaign against Egypt in 1798, led by Napoleon Bonaparte, to break the nose of the Egyptians, but the drawings made by the Danish explorer Friedrich Louis Norden to the Sphinx in 1737, and published in 1755, 61 years before the date of Napoleon's campaign against Egypt, And 32 years before Bonaparte himself was born, in his book "The Journey to Egypt and Nubia," which is funded in its current form without a nose, according to the British newspaper "The Guardian".

2- A strict Sufi who wanted to break the sanctity of the statue:

However, the account of the Egyptian historian Taqi al-Din al-Maqrizi claimed that the one who ruined the statue was a simple, fanatic, mystical named Muhammad, the fasting person, who lived next to this "idol" which people were looking at as a reverence at that time, so he tried to tear down the statue with a sharp instrument to prove to them that it was sacred. However, the locals punished him by beating him to death in 1378.

3- World Wars

In a contrasting account of the foregoing, the British were said to have accused Napoleon's campaign of breaking the Sphinx's nose and sabotaging it; plotting in the French, the British and German armies that entered Egypt during World War I and II were also charged, but experts denied these special rumors to pictures of the statue without Nose since 1886, and before that.
4- Erosion factors:

There are those who say that erosion was the cause of the fall of the Sphinx's nose, and others went that the children of the Pharaohs kings were testing it in archery, but many agreed that the main reason was that the nose was the weakest point in the Sphinx.