Sphinx From 90-Year-Old Movie Set Unearthed in California

San Fracisco Chronicle ^ | Saturday, December 2, 2017

[nickcarraway]

Archaeologists working in sand dunes on the central California coast have dug up an intact plaster sphinx that was part of an Egyptian movie set built more than 90 years ago for Cecil B. DeMille's epic "The Ten Commandments."

The 300-pound sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.

[SunkenCiv]

The slient version actually managed to kill some extras when the water was released, if memory serves. Those were the good old days. :^) A requirement of the land management (federal or state, I duuno) of the time was that the sets be build below grade, and buired after completion of the picture.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks nickcarraway.

• Giant sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' film unearthed 91 years later [2014]

[bert]

So, what was the riddle of the sphinx?

[Trillian]

I was thinking the same thing..

[SteveH]

lol!