The Pharaohs of California

Cecil B. DeMille's famous film The Ten Commandments came out in 1923, and it was an instant hit. Sixty years later, a Los Angeles filmmaker named Peter Brosnan, having heard rumors that DeMille had buried some of the sphinxes from the set somewhere south of Santa Barbara, went to check out the area. "There were acres of faux bas relief Egyptian statuary sticking up out of the sand," he recalls. "And that was when I realized he buried more than sphinxes, he buried the whole set." It took another thirty years for some of those artifacts to be put on display: http://www.kcet.org/arts/artbound/counties/santa-barbara/cecil-b-demill-ten-commandments-excavation-nipomo-dunes.html