October 23, 2014
"Archeologists Dig Up Sphinxes From DeMille’s 'The Ten Commandments' Buried Along Central California Coast."
I love that headline. It's absurd and yet true, literally — because the stuff from the movie really was buried and in need of meticulous excavation of the archeological kind — and more deeply — because it's making me think that all those ancient Egyptian monuments were melodramatic, crowd-awing spectacle of a piece with Hollywood.
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How much of this stuff is going to confuse the hell out of future archeologists?
That's my nickname in my Sunday school class, Demille. I guess because he's a filmmaker from North Carolina and did these big religious epics. I've never actually seen any of his movies. Does anybody have any favorites?
Speaking of truthful absurdities, I wonder when they will carefully excavate the Obama's Roman columns (or were they Greek?) from the heady days when he was still the Messiah who could kiss any woman he pleased without any backlash.
Rumpletweezer said...
How much of this stuff is going to confuse the hell out of future archeologists?
The real confusion will start when Crack reappears to inform us that these sphinxes were actually created 2,000 years ago by advanced North American Black societies that were later crushed by the invading white man.
Crack has gone the full "Black Athena" route. Which, by the way, is standard teaching in every "African-American" studies program...including the one at UW-Madison.
Considering they'e fragile constructions of lathe and plaster, I don't think future archaeologists will be fooled.
A wrecked, still-radioactive Statue of Liberty was discovered on the cliffs just north of Atlantic City.
Those maniacs. D*mn them all to hell.
That is meta. So is the shelter that was built in 1932 to protect Casa Grande in AZ. It is now on the National Register of Historic Places. What if they built a shelter to protect the shelter that protects Casa Grande. It's shells all the way up and turtles all the way down.
Archie Waugh said:
"Considering they'e fragile constructions of lathe and plaster, I don't think future archaeologists will be fooled."
What if they graduated from Harvard?
"A wrecked, still-radioactive Statue of Liberty was discovered on the cliffs just north of Atlantic City."
...and then it launched into space.
Saint Croix, you can't go wrong with "The 10 Commandments" starring Charleston Heston. It's the obvious choice, but still a very strong movie.
Rumpletweezer, ya got me there!
Go for it. Sand dunes near Santa Barbara need to earn their keep.
thanks, Michael!
What about the original version? Not as good?
They've actually known about that junk for years and this isn't even the first time excavating it (search for 'archaeoblog demille' for some of my posts/links) .
It's kinda neat from a historical perspective -- preserving some Hollywood heritage and all that -- but I'm not sure how archaeologically significant it is.
They did a cheesy sic-fi movie about it a few years ago called "Sands of Oblivion" which is entirely forgettable save for the presence of the utterly captivating Morena Baccarin.
Rumpletweezer @ 12:36 for Comment Of The Day!
Beach, hyper symbolic sculpture emerging from the sand...
furious_ got it...Planet of the Apes.
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