Byline: Christopher Reynolds Los Angeles Times
An ancient Egyptian eye, unblinking in the sandy wind, stared up at Peter Brosnan. And Peter Brosnan, a bearded Angeleno with $10,000, a borrowed ground-penetrating radar system and a crazy dream, stared back.
"Take a look at this guy," said Brosnan. "That's the Pharaoh."
And that's why Brosnan, 38, a screenwriter, teacher and documentary film maker, started digging in the dunes near this Northern California city of 5,500 in 1983.
This is where Cecil B. DeMille filmed the silent movie version of "The Ten Commandments" in 1923, and where DeMille buried and abandoned one of the largest sets in …
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