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    Posted: 20-Oct-2014 at 11:09

Yes! Archeaologists have uncovered a 12 foot sphinx in dunes in the California desert.  However, the archs. were working for the Film Industry Institute and the Sphinx was one of 12 made for Cecil B DeMille's 1923 production of the Ten Commandments.  [GotchaBig smile]  

DeMille had all of the props made for the movie burried, as he didn't want anyone else to use them for other films. I had a link, but lost it.  If you google the thread title there are several articles.
 
 
 
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You shouldn't tell the truth that much quickly LOL
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I remember seeing  that on the dish.  Apparently, there is a lot of stuff buried out there in very good states of preservation.

Maybe even Cecil himself!  Big smile
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That is a good movie,people!SmileEpic.
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  Quote Sander Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 21-Oct-2014 at 21:30
Originally posted by red clay

Yes! Archeaologists have uncovered a 12 foot sphinx in dunes in the California desert.  However, the archs. were working for the Film Industry Institute and the Sphinx was one of 12 made for Cecil B DeMille's 1923 production of the Ten Commandments.  [GotchaBig smile]  

DeMille had all of the props made for the movie burried, as he didn't want anyone else to use them for other films. I had a link, but lost it.  If you google the thread title there are several articles.
 
 
 
You got me for a moment Ouch

I immediately remembered that some newspaper reported on a Smithsonian discovery of Egyptian artefacts. For whatever it's worth, an interesting discussion (incl.a photocopy) of the original article is found here:





Seeing evidence of ancient Egypt in the Grand Canyon

Is there, within the Grand Canyon, an enigmatic system of tunnels that is evidence of an ancient Egyptian voyage to America? Is it all bogus? Or is the truth most likely somewhere in between?

On April 5, 1909, a front page story in the Arizona Gazette reported on an archaeological expedition in the heart of the Grand Canyon funded by the Smithsonian Institute, which had resulted in the discovery of Egyptian artefacts. April 5 is close to April 1 – but then not quite… so perhaps the story could be true?

Nothing since has been heard of this discovery. Today, over five million tourists visit the Grand Canyon each year. You would thus expect that if anything was hidden in the canyons, it would thus since long have been uncovered. However, most tourists only spend around 3 hours of time at the canyon, usually visiting the legendary South Rim view around mile 89, where most of the best and oldest tourist facilities are located. Furthermore, some have said that the entire discovery has since become the centre of a major cover-up, apparently in an effort to maintain the old status quo, which is that the ancient Egyptians never ventured outside of the tranquil waters of the river Nile.

The original story goes that the team found an underground network of tunnels, high above the Colorado River, containing various ancient artefacts, statues and even mummies. A major discovery, no doubt about it. Impossible to slip off the archaeological radar. Still, the Smithsonian Institute will report it has no records on the subject. So what happened? To find out, there is only one guide: the article itself. Though the article was anonymous, it did identify some of the archaeologists involved: “under the direction of Prof. S. A. Jordan", with Smithsonian-backed adventurer G. E. Kinkaid, who then relates his findings. 

But the story gets weirder when the Smithsonian stated that it had no Kinkaid or Jordan on record. In one enquiry from 2000, the institution replied: “The Smithsonian Institution has received many questions about an article in the April 5, 1909 Phoenix Gazette about G. E. Kincaid and his discovery of a 'great underground citadel' in the Grand Canyon, hewn by an ancient race 'of oriental origin, possibly from Egypt.' […] The Smithsonian's Department of Anthropology, has searched its files without finding any mention of a Professor Jordan, Kincaid, or a lost Egyptian civilization in Arizona. Nevertheless, the story continues to be repeated in books and articles.” There is room for a cover-up, of course, as some have argued. The files do not necessarily have to set within that department’s and the reference to the Phoenix Gazette rather than Arizona Gazette could be a simple error, or an escape valve that is so often present in official replies engineered to debunk. Stories like “the CIA Division X has no record” often means that Division Y is the one who has that record.

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