Lost Sphinx found in California

Giant Sphinx Head found in California as Archaeoligsts excavate the Lost Egypt of DeMille

[SkBettty]

Archeologists in 3025 are going to be so confused when they find Hollywood….

[TheTrueMariWho]

Plot twist:
The Great Pyramid was just a film set as well. 😂

[jamesstrain]

It's from DeMille's first production of 1923 (his 1956 version was a remake). Back around 1991, I met a physicist named Lambert Dolphin who had become aware of this forgotten graveyard of cinematic art a few years earlier and was helping to raise interest in excavating it. If I'm not mistaken, he had surveyed the site with ground-penetrating radar. There's a museum at the site, the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, that now houses some of the pieces.

[Koldeman]

Wow! Although it's from a generally contemporary source, there's still some historic value to this find. Cecil B. DeMille's original silent version of "The Ten Commandments" was an epic & unprecedented undertaking production like no other. His technicolor, moviestar-studded remake with Charlton Heston that we all see on TV around Easter is absolutely timeless, but his original version is a masterpiece of silent cinema & it's amazing that relics from that production have been unearthed.

[bzod]

The 10 Commandments was a masterpiece of quality filmmaking

[aaronpetterson]

The amount of waste in Hollywood is truly ironic. Countless truckloads of sets and props I've personally delivered to the dump when I worked for a studio storage company. "Cheaper than storage costs".. bs man.

[panda_prospecting]

This is just a cover up to hide the fact that Egyptians used to live in the Grand Canyon 😂

[OSCARLOPEZ-uipu]

In 4050 archeologists will think humans were like Mr Bean

[mipzr]

The director was an idiot. It could have become a great tourist attraction!

[XaelX]

Yep you can still see parts of the old set. This is at Guadalupe Dunes. Used to live 15 minutes from there. Very beautiful area.

[HRGM]

The plot twist…despite learning of this archeologist still dated the artifacts to be 1.3 billion years old 😂

[samdsouza]

😂😂😂😂 initially I was so curious to hear later when u said it's movie art effects couldn't' control my laugh 😂😂😂😂

[austinharper]

Look at them being sooo gentle with it for nothing😂😂

[rossjohnson]

Descendents of the DeMille Dynasty still live in California, and many Cecilians in Las Vegas, and as far east as New Jersey.

[tomcat]

A copy of the screenplay for "The Bodyguard" was underneath the sphinx's head.

[supergonkey]

Imagine if this is all what history has ever been. Demolished film sets over thousands of years.

[AtTheBaseOfBokTower]

I can’t be the only one who’d love to put a piece of that in their garden.

[daveweiss]

How am I just now hearing of this??? Even just being movie props, they are still extremely important historic artifacts!

[ednaatluxton]

Cecil B. DeMille. Best movie ever. He had intended on making the whole Bible into movies but passed away before getting barely started.

[Bizzy-Bumble]

I'm strictly here to read the commentary. Love it❤😂