thanks ach were they really upset?
Dude the film was banned in Egypt aside from the historical errors in it, there was also the issue of him being a black actor, here is an article about it: http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=SzxWAAAAIBAJ&sjid=t-kDAAAAIBAJ&dq=sadat%20columbia-pictures%20egypt&pg=7062%2C1388034
Btw, Now you have your reason all the noses were chopped off the pyramids and statues to hide the race of Egyptians, just like everyone originally thought.
The one-metre-wide nose on the face is missing. Examination of the Sphinx's face shows that long rods or chisels were hammered into the nose, one down from the bridge and one beneath the nostril, then used to pry the nose off towards the south.[31]
The Arab historian al-Maqrīzī, writing in the 15th century, attributes the loss of the nose to iconoclasm by Muhammad Sa'im al-Dahr, a Sufi Muslim from the khanqah of Sa'id al-Su'ada. In AD 1378, upon finding the local peasants making offerings to the Sphinx in the hope of increasing their harvest, Sa'im al-Dahr was so outraged that he destroyed the nose, and was hanged for vandalism.[32] Al-Maqrīzī describes the Sphinx as the "talisman of the Nile" on which the locals believed the flood cycle depended.[citation needed]
There is also a story that the nose was broken off by a cannonball fired by Napoleon's soldiers, that still lives on today. Other variants indict British troops, the Mamluks, and others. Sketches of the Sphinx by the Dane Frederic Louis Norden, "View of the Sphinx, near Cairo" made in 1737 and published in 1755, illustrate the Sphinx missing its nose (see pictures below).[citation needed]
In addition to the lost nose, a ceremonial pharaonic beard is thought to have been attached, although this may have been added in later periods after the original construction. Egyptologist Vassil Dobrev has suggested that had the beard been an original part of the Sphinx, it would have damaged the chin of the statue upon falling.[16] The lack of visible damage supports his theory that the beard was a later addition.
