Reblogged from EYE ON DESIGN by Dan Gregory:
Flights of the Phoenix
Earth Day is April 22, so let's talk recycling. It's not a new idea: remember the Romans! In 10 B. C. Emperor Augustus removed the obelisk from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis in Egypt and placed it in the Circus Maximus; then in 1589 Pope Sixtus V had it erected in the Piazza del Popolo topped with a cross.









