Giant replica sphinx from 'Ten Commandments' discovered

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Giant replica sphinx from ‘Ten Commandments’ discovered

By Staff Report / Monday, November 27th, 2017 / Comments Off on Giant replica sphinx from ‘Ten Commandments’ discovered

Archaeologists discovered the head of a giant replica sphinx at the buried Guadalupe-Nipomo site of the set of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 silent film “The Ten Commandments.” Weighing in at 300 pounds, the plaster sphinx head joins several other film history artifacts, according to a news release from the Dunes Center on Nov. 27, and…

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