lol they didn't shoot the noses off the statues, it's just that for very ancient sculptures the nose is usually the first that wears off by the elements and time.
well at that time Egypt was occupied by the Romans, and before the Roman had been conquered by the Greeks and ruled over by the Ptolmeys (descendants of Alexander's general Ptolmey). Roman Egypt would have been pretty cosmopolitan being a major province of the Empire and at a geographical crossroads
Ramsees name before he became pharaoh was Ramihotep llV, and in his many books he talked about how the grass and all the pyramids was white, even the sky was white before anyone of color landed on the planet
