Search Results: Archeological Site
Under the sand in the Nipomo dune field is the Egyptian set from Cecil B. DeMille's epic movie "The Ten Commandments," dynamited and buried there by the crew after shooting ended in 1923. 1,600 workers were employed to build the plaster and wood set for the month-long...
Forbidden Gardens was a massive re-creation of a Imperial Chinese historic sites, built in the plains of Texas by a visionary Hong Kong businessman. Included in this sprawling attraction were 6,000 terra-cotta soldiers, arrayed as they were found in China in 1974, when...
A controversial archeological site, which suggests that humans have been in North America as early as 200,000 years ago. Louis Leakey was the project director at Calico until his death in 1972, and it was the only New World site he worked on. One of the basic...
The discovery of skeletal remains at this site, on the shores of the Columbia in Kennewick, led to a debate based on varied interpretations of archeological evidence. Native Americans claimed the 9,200 year old bones are theirs and should be reinterred, while...