Pyramids abound in the Middle East. How would you feel if you were told that these thousand years pyramids are about to be added with one more? This is very likely because artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude revealed their plan to create a new pyramid somewhere in the vast desert of UAE. But unlike the most admired Pyramid of Giza and other pyramids, this won’t be made of bricks and sand but of oil barrels! This planned pyramid of oil barrels which they called as the Mastaba project would be 150 meters high and would be composed of approximately 390,500 barrels, stacked right on top of each other! If this pyramid of oil barrels materializes, it’s said to survive for 5,000 years. They are still waiting for approval from the UAE government.

Previously they have already tried building this pyramid in Texas and Netherlands but so far it has not become a reality. So they are hopeful about this new venture in the UAE.

The couple is known for their large-scale creations like when they wrapped in fabric the Pont-Neuf in Paris and the Berlin Reichstag. At this moment the couple is working on their “Over the River” project wherein they intend to cover the 10.7 kilometer of the Arkansas River in Colorado USA and the cover will last for two weeks in July and August 2011.