Archaeological Excavations at Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 The Ten Commandments Film Set, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, California

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The movie set used to film the prologue of Cecil B. DeMille’s 1923 silent movie classic The Ten Commandments was constructed in today’s Rancho Guadalupe Dunes Preserve in California. Featuring a replica of a pharaonic Egyptian city, archaeologists from Applied EarthWorks, Inc. investigated the ruins in 2012 and again in 2014.

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Hamilton, M. C. & Nixon, J., (2016) “Archaeological Excavations at Cecil B. DeMille's 1923 The Ten Commandments Film Set, Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, California”, Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections 8(1), 110-121. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/azu_jaei_v09i1_hamilton

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M. Colleen Hamilton (Applied Earthworks, Inc.)
Joseph Nixon

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