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An Egyptian sphinx was uncovered in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes in California.
"The Ten Commandments" film was a masterpiece in its day. Hollywood director Cecil B. DeMille had Paul Iribe, a French artist known as "the father of art deco," create 21 sphinxes for the movie. DeMille placed the sphinxes in the movie's biblical Exodus set, where he filmed scenes of the Jews toiling under the Egyptians and later escaping through a parted Red Sea. DeMille filmed the Exodus portion of the movie in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, because it looked like sandy Egypt, Jenzen noted.
The Exodus set was enormous. It had pharaohs, sphinxes and colossal temple gates that, in all, reached 12 stories high and spanned 800 feet (240 meters) in width, Jenzen said. But legend has it that DeMille realized two things when he was done filming: The set was too expensive to move and too valuable to leave behind for rival filmmakers to steal, Jenzen said.
DeMille solved his dilemma by having the Exodus set buried in the sand...Here is the link to that LiveScience article if you want to read more.
https://www.livescience.com/61045-hollywood-sphinx-found-in-dunes.html
Like I was saying the other day, it can be difficult to identify an item. There are different ways that items can end up somewhere, and sometimes those ways are unexpected and surprising. And there is also the problem of copies or reproductions. I've posted some of those in the past. I've found reproduction coins that were actually made of silver and gold. They should be marked as such, but aren't always.
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Get your ark ready.
Sea-level rise in this century may threaten Jamestown in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas; the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which launches all of NASA's human spaceflight missions; and the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse in North Carolina, the tallest brick lighthouse in the United States, a new study finds.
These iconic locales are some of the more than 13,000 archaeological and historical sites on the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the southeastern United States that rising sea levels will endanger this century, researchers in the new study said.
Global warming may lead sea levels to rise by about 3.3 feet (1 meter) in the next century and by 16.4 feet (5 m) or more in the centuries afterward, according to research from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and others. These rising sea levels could have severe effects, as more than 40 percent of all people worldwide currently live within a 60-mile (100 kilometers) distance from a coastline, many in low-lying areas vulnerable to sea-level rise, according to reports from the United Nations and others...
That comes from another LiveScience article. Here is the link for the rest of the article.
https://www.livescience.com/61063-rising-seas-may-destroy-archeological-sites.html
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Concerning the found anchor that I posted yesterday, Captain Jonah said, The anchor is most likely not Hartmans. They didn't use stern anchors. Instead use to use rims with tires attached to crown lines. And would have the guys dig deep holes burying them up to the crownline. They are still there every once and awhile we come across one. Just to clear up.
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Concerning the mystery find that I posted on 12/1, Galen went back to McLarty Museum and found a good comparison piece.
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| Tools On Display At McLarty Museum. Photo by Gaylen C. |
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| Engraving Tool Point Beside Point of Mystery Find. Photo by Gaylen C. |
Here is what Gaylen said about that.
Went back to McLarty yesterday with grandson. Saw something I missed on the first trip in the display donated by Douglas Armstrong regarding the very early french explorers in FL. This is an extremely similar piece. As displayed it could perhaps explain what I thought looked like wood remains. In an article I was reading it was reported to Menendez that some of the French escaped the slaughter and had traveled at least 75 miles to the south. We need some historians to address that. But the imagination can use that as the reason I found this in Ft Pierce. If it indeed is an engraving tool it fits into the activities in this area in these times. It could very well be Spanish as well as it could be French. I am curious as to who identified the piece on display. Is Douglas Armstrong still in the area? If so perhaps he could offer some insight. As I said, unless this is determined to be a positive ID, it kind of expands the realm of possibilities:
1. It is an early French tool, and even older than thought.
2. Frenchmen carried it south?
3 Spaniards acquired it by raiding the French.
4 It's really Spanish.
5 It is something totally different.
Last photo shows the two items in comparison. What think ye mateys?
For me - they sure do look alike.
Gaylen is cleaning the item and thinks he might see remnants of a wood handle.
Thanks Gaylen.
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On the Treasure Coast we have beautiful weather - if you like beautiful weather. I prefer windy and rainy.
The moon is beautiful too. Good high tides but small surf.
Happy hunting,
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