Egypt

Mystery Egyptian Desert Spiral

Update: Thanks to cowens and others who informed us that this is actually an absolutely massive piece of land art called desert breath. Click through for some images and a way better description than I gave it! What on earth…

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Friday, 11th May 2007

Face of [Insert Your Own Messiah] Found in [Insert Your Own Natural Phenomenon]

Free UK daily paper The Metro published an article last week about a YouTube video1 in which someone claimed to have found the shape of Jesus in a cloud, floating over Mount Sinai in Egypt. We thought this was such…

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Monday, 30th April 2007

Plane Shaped Pools

It seems that more than one person has had the idea of theming their swimming pool around aeroplanes… Here’s a small private plane-shaped pool in Miami. This is the Flying W Airport in New Jersey, where they have a cool…

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Thursday, 26th April 2007

Mysterious Floating Disc?

Is this a mysterious floating disc in Egypt? It certainly shares characteristics with the Australian Flying Car, but this time the ‘shadow’ looks too… dense? And maybe too sharp around the edges as well I think. Maybe this is actually…

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Monday, 10th April 2006

Oil Platform Megapost

Yep, it’s time for another Monday Megapost and this week we’re focusing on those gentle giants of the sea: Oil Platforms. The problem with finding oil platforms on Google Maps is that most of the open sea isn’t available on…

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Monday, 13th March 2006

Kebira Crater

Currently doing the rounds in the mainstream press, this is the recently discovered Kebira meteorite crater in the western desert of Egypt. At 31 kilometers across Kebira utterly dwarfs Arizona’s famous Barringer meteor crater (which is only 1.2 kilometres in…

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Monday, 6th March 2006
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