Why is the sphinx nose missing
Why Ancient Egyptian Statues Are Missing The Nose | February 20, 2020
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today's edition of CNN 10 gets off the
ground with four proposed space missions
and they go well beyond the Moon and
Mars I'm Carl azuz at the CNN center
thank you for taking the time to watch
our show NASA the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration has four ideas
that's looking at as possible future
missions two of them with focus on Venus
one of them would explore Jupiter's moon
Io and one of them would fly by
Neptune's moon Triton I keep saying
would because these are just ideas at
this point they'll each be researched by
a team over a period of nine months and
when the final proposals are made NASA
will then decide whether to turn them
into actual missions so what would
scientists hope to learn from all this
as far as Venus goes one thing they're
interested in is its atmosphere which is
toxic
another is the planet surface which is
hot enough to melt lead
venus is scorching rocky landscape could
be mapped Jupiter's moon Io is believed
to be the most volcanically active place
in our solar system
so NASA would like to find out more
about the eruptions that happen there
and Triton a moon that orbits Neptune
could also be mapped and studied to see
if there are signs of an ocean beneath
the moon's surface
none of these missions would involve
astronauts robotic spacecraft would be
doing the traveling and of course all of
them would come at a cost
in fact the teams that are assigned
these subjects will each receive three
million dollars just to come up with
their proposals if any of those are
approved for missions space comm says
each one would be limited to a price of
500 million dollars but that doesn't
include the costs of launching the
spacecraft and supporting it while it's
in space and for reference the Juno
mission alone from developing the
spacecraft to getting it off the ground
to processing all of its information was
more than a billion dollars NASA could
choose to give two of these new missions
the greenlight 10-second trivia the
northern and southern kingdoms of what
nation were unified in 3100 BC India
Egypt Persia or Japan
events around the Year 3100 BC resulted
in the unification of ancient Egypt one
thing you might notice when looking at
many statues from ancient Egypt is that
they're missing their noses of course
these artifacts are thousands of years
old someone might think the noses would
be the first things to fall or break off
but a museum curator in New York City
was asked the question so many times
that he started researching why the
noses were missing and he found out that
the faces were defaced on purpose
the reasons are complicated power
struggles between rulers changes in or
disagreements over religion political
division personal grudges all of these
are likely reasons for the damage the
criminal acts the vandalism but why
specifically the noses the curator
suggests that because the nose allows
someone to breathe removing it would
make that impossible and effectively
kill the statue that represents somebody
there are many other ways including
natural ones that these relics decay or
become damaged over the millennia and
ahead of its opening this year the grand
egyptian museum hired a number of
experts to bring artifacts back to
nearly original condition it's a labor
of love
an army of conservationists and
archaeologists are delicately and
skillfully restoring a treasure trove
that's over 3,500 years old
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it belongs to Egypt's Pharaoh due to
common
better known as King Tut this facility
seventeen laboratories are being used to
restore up to 50,000 artifacts of this
nation's most precious relics up to 40
Japanese experts are overseeing this
vast conservation project from training
local personnel to use in their own
high-tech equipment the technologies we
brought for this project is like x-ray
radiography 3d scanning and also like
high spec digital microscope which can
do the investigation without destruction
the glass over here is fantastic because
the visitor once in the galleries can
see the face of the statue of ramses ii
egypt's treasures are being restored for
their new home next door a 1 billion
dollar museum at the edge of the ancient
Pyramids of Giza the ganesha museum will
show more than 20,000 artifacts that
have never been on this day before they
were hidden in storerooms in magazines
of the egyptian museum at cairo from in
storage facilities all over egypt more
than 7,000 construction workers are
building this massive museum thanks to a
loan of 750 million dollars from the
Japanese government it includes a
conference center which can house up to
1,000 participants of a conference it
has a cinema theater which can have up
to 500 visitors and it has about 28
shops and more than 10 restaurants it
has really a potential of being the
resource for more tourism after the
conservation work it will attract more
people to the museum and I think I will
really contribute to this industry
touristic industry in the future
Business News some American retail
companies are just now reporting what
their sales were like for the 2019
holiday shopping season and at least
four brick-and-mortar retailers
companies with physical stores it wasn't
great Walmart is the biggest retail
company in America it says in the few
weeks before Christmas there was quote
softness in sales of toys video games
and clothing it did see growth at its
stores and websites that had been open
for at least a year but the increase
wasn't as big as investors expected part
of the reason for this Thanksgiving fell
later in November than usual there were
six fewer days between that holiday and
Christmas that gave Americans less time
to spend money and Walmart's not alone
Target Kohl's Bed Bath and Beyond they
all struggled last season we told you
yesterday how Macy's plans to close 125
stores in the three years ahead there
were exceptions though Costco did well
t.j.maxx had good sales and Amazon had
what one business writer described as a
blowout holiday stretch
despite its disappointing Christmas
sales Walmart said its largest business
groceries is doing well and the company
expects a strong year ahead it's been
able to survive and thrive in the age of
Amazon and it's made a number of changes
to do it online grocery pickup and
delivery as part of that there are also
changes taking place in Walmart stores
themselves but it's hard to say what the
overall impact of robots will be
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our last story this Thursday is about a
match made in heaven dog heaven honey
and Duke are the names of the dogs their
rescue mutts in South Carolina and
apparently they have a lot in common
they both love treats and they're both
dogs so with costumes custom tailored
for the occasion and a ceremony attended
by close human family and friends honey
and Duke were officially united as dog
and wife and the dessert truly took the
cake to heal and to hold from this dog
forward for Barker or worse guess you
could call that how Lillie matrimony
they might have a leg up on human
weddings unless they needed a pre pup
xual agreement but we wonder what the
groom will do when he sees his first
honey Duke list listen it's time for us
to scoot but not before we mentioned
Monticello high school it's in
Monticello Wisconsin thank you for
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