LOST Film Footage of The Sphinx Excavations FOUND and RESTORED | Ancient Architects

After a video showing vintage photographs of the Sphinx excavations from the 1920s and 30s I went on the hunt for more, and came across something I had never seen before, actual video footage of the Sphinx excavation and renovation work from nearly 100 years ago. Most vintage black and white footage of the Sphinx comes from after 1930s, and you can tell this because the headdress has been restored, but finding footage of the Sphinx pre-1930s is incredibly rare. In fact such footage is generally stored on archives, owned by private companies and it never gets to see the light of day. The footage I’ve discovered this week was in black and white, was incredibly grainy and full of noise, very little contrast in the shades of grey and of course it is low resolution. Some of it was also flipped horizontally. I’m no expert in video restoration but I sharpened the video as best I could, added a little more contrast and also attempted to colourise the footage, to bring it to life nearly 100 years after i