Yes, It Really Just Snowed in Egypt (Even If That Sphinx Photo Is Fake)

[Coyotl]

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2013/12/egypt-snow-sphinx-photo-jet-stream



that image actually seems to be of a theme park in Japan—where snow would be decidedly less extraordinary—that contains a sphinx replica.

Meanwhile, just how rare is snow in Egypt, anyway? Capital Weather Gang and New York Magazine have called into question assertions that it has not occurred in 112 years. Still, snow is extremely uncommon—as is rain, for that matter: According to Wunderground, Cairo receives less than an inch of rain per year.

The diorama:

[rustydog]

1. Damn, shades of the seventh sign!

Or was it the Seventh Seal?
You know, the movie with what's her name and what's his name. She is pregnant..."WILL YOU DIE FOR HIM?"
that movie.

[BlueCaliDem]

2. The Seventh Sign - and I LOVED that movie. eom

[longship]

5. I prefer the Bergman version.

But I believe you're talking about the Demi Moore film, The Seventh Sign which takes Revelation eschatology fairly literally, albeit with inevitable Hollywood license. It seems to me to be yet another dying and rising savior narrative. It's a minor, albeit interesting, film if one likes such things.

Ingmar Bergman's film, The Seventh Seal is a truly great film. I watch it once in a while, the Demi Moore one, not so much.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. This Cairo covered in snow; a picture in that same article.

Amazing that it hasn't snowed in Cairo in over a century!

But, of course, there can't be any climate change.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. I can only imagine the wonder children are experiencing there. :^)