7/29/2023 0 Comments Ten commandments movie 1923![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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