Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Megapixel

Here's a shot of the mosaic on the floor of St George's church in
Madaba. It was huge (17 meters x 7 meters), old (560 AD),
informational (covered all of the holy sights from modern day Egypt,
Jordan, Israel, and Syria), and intricate (approx 1.5 million pieces
of stone). Only a third of the original remains... but it is very
impressive. The photo is zoomed in on Jerusalem.

1 comment:

alecdet said...

When we traveled with you and Anissa to this spot, you thought it was a nice puzzle. "Return of the native"!!!.
Love, Mom