Linda noticed them two years ago when we toured the north shore of lake Qurun, opposite the city of Fayoum - stones with an unusual appearance. Well, it was hard not to notice them - many were literally larger than life. Linda posed by this one in 2023 to give us a sense of scale.
Even if a person didn't have a childhood rock collection or take an "Introduction to Geology" course in college to satisfy a nagging science requirement, the watermelon sized shapes inspire great curiosity as they show up sitting on the Sahara sand. Proof that this vast desert was once an ocean?
Fossilized shells the size of a quarter or half dollar cover wide swaths of another area.
Basalt stones formed the base of an ancient highway lined by petrified wood.
Unusual shapes present themselves at every turn near the Climate Change Museum.
Linda and I disagree on this one. Linda describes it as gourd-shaped. I claim it was the inspiration for Al Capp's Schmoos in the 1950s.
More stones photos from both this trip and our 2023 visit to the the North Shore of Lake Qurun can be found on Flickr at this link.
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