Long Lost ‘Ten Commandments’ Film Artifacts Found Guadalupe, CA — Talk about a buried treasure. Artifacts from the legendary 1923 “Ten Commandments” film have been found, beneath sand.

As translated by the Stasi Museum in Berlin, here are The 10 Commandments of Socialist Morals and Ethics, part of the Socialist Unity Party platform until 1976.

Despite their fragility, the statues recovered this week have a surprising characteristic for being set pieces in a black and white film: they were painted.

On the same day a Senate committee voted to install the Ten Commandments on the Capitol lawn, another voted to make college harder for Black students.