The Sphinx’s head has a royal look and bears some traditional symbols of ancient Egypt’s monarchy. It wears the nemes, a cloth headdress worn by Egyptian pharaohs.

GIZA PLATEAU, Egypt — The newly restored Sphinx has neither the nose nor the beard that once graced its massive stone head. It hasn’t had a complete set of facial features at least since an ...

The 300lb plaster sphinx head has been unearthed by archaeologists excavating Cecil B. DeMille's 95-year-old movie set for The Ten Commandments (Image: Cover Images) ...

In a bit of Hollywood Egyptology, archaeologists in California stumbled upon an enormous Sphinx head in the Guadalupe-Nipomo sand dunes, about 175 miles from Los Angeles. The film, starring ...

A GIANT sphinx head has been discovered buried in the sands of California and it comes straight out of one of the silent movie era’s most extravagant productions. The perfectly intact 300-pou… ...

They discovered a 300-pound head, still intact after nearly a century in the sand. The partial sphinx unearthed at the Guadalupe-Nipomo Sand Dunes Christine Muratore Evans ...

Archaeologists excavating the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in California unearthed a magnificent sphinx head dating all the way back to…1923. Ninety-five years ago, Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille ...

Saturday’s 1920s-themed gala drew dignitaries such as Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, and Dunes Center executive director Doug Jenzen, who talked about the sphinx head before its unveiling.

Sphinx Head From ‘The Ten Commandments’ Found in California Sand Dunes. Since this is tinseltown, it wasn’t a real Egyptian artifact, but rather a reproduction created for the 1923 Cecil B. ...