Update: Thanks to cowens and others who
informed us that this is actually an absolutely massive piece of
land art called http://www.archipedia.org/landscape/desertbreath desert
breath. Click through for some images and a way better
description than I gave it!
What on earth is the purpose of
this massive spiral in the Egyptian desert?
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It appears to be made from near-perfect circles scooped from the
sand, which decrease in size toward the centre of the spiral -
where there is a much larger circular trench.
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Whatever the spiral’s purpose actually is, it must have taken a
serious amount of effort to put here.
Thanks to http://bbs.keyhole.com/ubb/showflat.php?Number=547078&page=0
BZoltan
Tags: , Desert, Egyptian, Mystery, Spiral
This is the bizarre
Spiral Jetty, a huge piece of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_Art land art on the
northeastern shore of the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake Great Salt
Lake in Utah. Built of mud, salt crystals, basalt rocks and
earth, it forms a 1500 foot long (~450 metre), 15-foot wide
counterclockwise coil, which extends from the lake shore. It was
actually entirely submerged by rising lake waters for many years,
but due to lowering water levels, has since re-emerged.
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Spiral Jetty was built all the way back in 1970 by the late
American sculptor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Smithson Robert
Smithson, who also created some other pieces of land art which
are still visible on Google Earth, including the 1971 piece
Spiral Hill, Broken Circle in Emmen, Holland.
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See other
spirals on GSS, and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spiral_Jetty read more about
Spiral Jetty at Wikipedia.
Thanks to Dan Blue and Mike Shubeck.
Tags: , Art, land, Spiral