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    Californian Archaeologists Unearth A Not-So-Ancient Egyptian Sphinx

    Archaeologists in Guadalupe, Calif., were startled by a peculiar discovery: A relic from Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 biblical film The Ten Commandments.
    by Emily Sullivan Dec 02, 2017 1 minute
    The 12-story set of 1923's <em>Ten Commandments </em>was too expensive to dismantle, so it was buried at a location unknown to the public.

    Archaeologists recently unearthed a curious artifact in California: An Egyptian sphinx.

    Unlike the Great Sphinx of Giza, which was made of bedrock, this sphinx was made from plastic. And it wasn't

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