{"id":29260,"date":"2014-10-19T22:29:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=29260"},"modified":"2014-10-19T22:29:44","modified_gmt":"2014-10-19T14:29:44","slug":"archaeologists-dig-for-the-ten-commandments-buried-sphinxes-in-the-california-sand-dunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2014\/10\/19\/archaeologists-dig-for-the-ten-commandments-buried-sphinxes-in-the-california-sand-dunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Archaeologists dig for &#8216;The Ten Commandments&#8217; buried sphinxes in the California sand dunes"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29367\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ten-commandments.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-29367\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ten-commandments.jpg\" alt=\"Screengrab of &quot;The Ten Commandments&quot;\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ten-commandments.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ten-commandments-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ten-commandments-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/ten-commandments-900x506.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screengrab of &#8220;The Ten Commandments&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>GUADALUPE, California &#8212; Archaeologists working in the sand dunes along the Central California coast are digging up ancient sphinxes &#8212; but these are made of plaster.<\/p>\n<p>The giant imitations of an ancient Egyptian scene were constructed more than 90 years ago for the silent black-and-white classic movie &#8220;The Ten Commandments.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When filming was over in 1923, legendary filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille left them in the sands of the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in Santa Barbara County.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/lat.ms\/1wfvsbZ\">Los Angeles Times reports<\/a>\u00a0that this week, archaeologists excavated a crumbling plaster sphinx from the ruins.<\/p>\n<p>Another was partially exhumed in 2012 but money ran out.<\/p>\n<p>When crews went back this year, they found another.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of both sphinxes will be on display at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes Center.<\/p>\n<p>The centre raised $120,000 for the most recent dig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUADALUPE, California &#8212; Archaeologists working in the sand dunes along the Central California coast are digging up ancient sphinxes &#8212; &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":29367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1482,106,5742],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-breaking","category-hollywood","category-science-2","mauthors-the-canadian-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}