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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/10/16/sphinx-uncovered-california-desert-ten-commandments/17350293/


(NEWSER) – Archaeologists parted the sands of the California desert to excavate one of the last remnants of old-time Hollywood: a giant plaster sphinx from the set of Cecil B. DeMille's The Ten Commandments. The director buried props from the epic movie (the 1923 silent black-and-white version, not the color 1956 Charlton Heston blockbuster) in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes after the film wrapped. Among the props: 21 plaster sphinxes that were 12 feet tall and weighed 5 tons each. Archaeologists in 2012 managed to unearth the head of a sphinx they uncovered. Short on time, they left the body behind, and hoped to pull it out of the sands this time. What they were able to retrieve came out in pieces, but they also happened upon a nearby and largely intact sphinx before the $120,000 dig ended on Monday, KCET reports; that sphinx will hopefully join the previously discovered head at a nearby cultural center.