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New snowy Cairo picture debunked

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By Euronews
New snowy Cairo picture debunked

After last week’s first snowfall in Cairo in 112 years, several pictures have been circulating on social media of the Egyptian capital or landmarks under a white blanket. However some have been proved to be fake.

For instance, the image in the following tweet was debunked by the collaborative efforts of journalists in Storyful's Open Newsroom.

Indeed, this picture, as Open Newsroom notes, has been circulating since at least January 8, 2013.

Another example is a picture of the Pyramids and the Sphinx under snow, which actually is a shot of a Japanese miniature park’s copy of the monument.


It seems one more picture needs to be added to the list of debunked snowy Cairo images.

On December 14, the Twitter account @HistoryInPics posted this:

But social media users were quick to note the similarities between this image and another picture, and called the original poster on it.