Apparently, the sand kept most of the original paint intact and it's giving movie buffs a better understanding about how Hollywood movies were made nearly 100 years ago. DeMille's Ten Commandments that has been found thus far. Director Peter Bronson set out with a group of young filmmakers to find the not-so-ancient ruins in the early 1980s, with excavations now beginning nearly 40 years later and with twenty-one sphinxes built for the movie, there's still plenty more for treasure hunters to find.Įxecutive Director of the Dunes Center, Doug Jenzen, explains that the latest sphinx head is unlike anything from the set of Cecil B. The latest discovery is just the start for excavators, who have only unearthed a small piece of the colossal set for The Ten Commandments.
This is the second 300-pound sphinx head that archeologists have been able to dig up from the site. Some say that the massive set pieces were buried because it would have been too expensive to transfer them after the completion of the movie. The director ordered the construction of a huge Egyptian set including pharaohs, sphinxes, and temples for the 1923 epic.
Sphinxes are creatures from Egyptian myth and legend with a human head and the body of a lion and were a large part of the set of DeMille's legendary silent movie. While not technically ancient, 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.
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