Fact check: Were Egyptian monuments defaced because they look 'black'?

A Facebook page posted a picture of Egyptian monuments with noses broken off and claimed Europeans broke them because they resembled black faces.

Ancient Egyptian architecture, Tombs, Temples, & Significance

Brooklyn Museum: Why Are the Noses Broken on So Many Ancient Egyptian Statues?

The members of the National League's around the world tour in 1888-89, pose on the Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, for a portrait in February of 1889. [1111x1500] : r/HistoryPorn

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Cave Art Fair — Why Do so Many Egyptian Statues Have Broken Noses?

Where did Egyptian statues' broken noses go? - Suzanne Lovell Inc.

Did the 'white ancient African Egyptians' just have a habit of drawing pictures of black people on their walls and having sculptures of black people sculptures who eventually had their black features

A marble statue of muse polymnia, found in Via Terni inside an ancient underground passage in the area of the Horti Variani. 2nd century CE, now housed at the Centrale Montemartini in

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Why do so many Egyptian statues have broken noses?

Greenland voters want to keep coloniser's vandalised statue

The members of the National League's around the world tour in 1888-89, pose on the Great Sphinx in Giza, Egypt, for a portrait in February of 1889. [1111x1500] : r/HistoryPorn

Ancient cancel cultures: The defacement of statues in America replicates a tradition going back millennia, Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine