@omarcmysteries: In the remote Kimberley of Western Australia stands a maze of striped stone towers so surreal that the outside world only truly discovered them a few decades ago. 🏜️👁️ Spread across 174 square miles, the beehive-shaped domes of Purnululu rise banded in orange and black from base to tip — and here's the twist: nobody built them, and nobody painted them. The orange stripes are iron, oxidized like rust on the more porous layers of rock. The dark stripes are alive — they're cyanobacteria, and that living crust is the only thing holding the soft sandstone underneath together; scratch it away, and the tower begins to crumble. The wider world didn't even hear of the Bungle Bungles until the 1980s, yet the Gija people have lived alongside them for more than twenty thousand years. How do you get a striped city of stone with no builder and no painter? 👇 #mystery #didyouknow #unexplained #australia #LearnHistoryonTikTok

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