The road to Ubar : finding the Atlantis of the sands
No one thought that Ubar, the most fabled city of ancient Arabia, would ever be found -- if it had even existed. Buried in the desert without a trace the lost city had become known as "the Atlantis of the Sands." Many had searched for Ubar, including Lawrence of Arabia Then in the 1980s. Nicholas Clapp, a documentary filmmaker and amateur archaeologist stumbled on the legend of Ubar while poring over historical manuscripts. His curiosity led him to arrange two expeditions to Arabia with a team that included professional archaeologists and NASA space scientists. The discovery of Ubar was front-page news across the world and was heralded by Time as one of the three major scientific events of 1992
Print Book, English, 1999, ©1998
1st Mariner books ed View all formats and editions
Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1999, ©1998
viii, 342 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm
9780395957868, 0395957869
41557131
Myth
Unicorns
The Sands of Their Desire
Arabia Felix
The Flight of the Challenger
The Search Continues
The Inscription of the Crows
The Rawi's Tale
Should You Eat Something That Talks to You?
The City of Brass
The Singing Sands
Expedition
Reconnaissance
The Edge of the Known World
The Vale of Remembrance
The Empty Quarter
What the Radar Revealed
City of Towers
Red Springs
Seasons in the Land of Frankincense
The Rise and Fall of Ubar
Older Than 'Ad
The Incense Trade
Khuljan's City
City of Good and Evil
Sons and Thrones Are Destroyed
Epilogue: Hud's Tomb
Key Dates in the History of Ubar
A Glossary of People and Places
Further Reflections on al-Kisai's "The Prophet Hud"