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Associated Press

Archaeologists working in sand dunes on the central California coast have dug up an intact plaster sphinx that was part of an Egyptian film set built more than 90 years ago for Cecil B. DeMille’s epic The Ten Commandments.
The 135kg sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes.

Dunes Centre Executive Director Doug Jenzen told Santa Barbara news station KEYT-television that it is unlike other items found on previous digs because most of it is preserved with the original paint intact.
The set of the 1923 film included more than 20 sphinxes. After filming, DeMille ordered everything buried in the dunes 280km northwest of Los Angeles.

They lay undisturbed for decades before recovery efforts began. The newly recovered sphinx is expected to go on display at the dunes museum next summer.


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Archaeology and palaeontology

Sphinx from 90-year-old film set unearthed in California

A sphinx used in the film The Ten Commandments was found in Guadalupe, California. Photo: AP

In this Nov. 8, 2017 photo provided by the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center, crews move an unearthed sphinx head into safekeeping, where it will be carefully restored in Guadalupe, Calif. 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 filming of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic "The Ten Commandments." The 300-pound sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes. (Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center via AP)

In this Nov. 2, 2017 photo provided by the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center an excavation crew uses surfboards fastened to plywood as a sled to remove a plaster sphinx head from the dunes in Guadalupe, Calif. 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 filming of Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 epic "The Ten Commandments." (Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center via AP)

China’s fake Sphinx to be demolished after Egypt complains

The full-size replica of the Great Sphinx of Giza in Donggou village in Shijiazhuang, north China's Hebei province. The replica will be dismantled after an Egyptian ministry complained about the structure. Photo: AFP

The power of Louvre: replica Paris pyramid joins fake Sphinx in Chinese theme park

The replica Louvre Pyramid sits in the overgrown field of an amusement park/movie set in Shijiazhuang, Hebei province. A replica of Beijing's Temple of Heaven is under construction in the background. Photos: Netease.com

A fake Sphinx at the theme park developed by a film production company who said it was built as a set for film and television dramas. 

The modest entrance to the theme park, which charges 10 yuan each to visit the Louvre Pyramid and the Sphinx. 