If you made a turn on Twitter this weekend, you may have noticed these images of the Egyptian pyramids and the sphinx snow. Shared thousands of times, the pictures were taken by various media happy to relay an extraordinary event.
However, the story is false. Egypt has indeed experienced a snowfall in recent days, but massively shared photos of the Giza plateau under a white blanket covered the diversion, says Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities. Explanations images.
1. The sphinx: a miniature installed in Japan
The two photos above, originally a phenomenal craze on Twitter, have not been taken in Egypt, but in Japan. More precisely in the amusement park Tobu World Square, which offers a hundred miniature monuments 1/25th scale. Different topography and especially the tip of the Eiffel Tower that exceeds in the background were enough to put the chip in his ear. Below, another photo of the park that can measure the extent of the fraud.
(TOSHIFUMI KITAMURA/AFP)
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