[Ibrahiim al Balooshi]

Originally Posted by kronckew

shukran, ibrahim, for the additional info.

i've also seen the other postings on mussandam axes here.

having meandered around the rub' al khali in the '80's, a bit further west from the musandam peninsula and the ramlat al-wahiba, i can appreciate the origins. a tough climate. hard to believe that up to 4-5000 years ago, like north africa, it was all green and there were flourishing cities there...

climate change is not a modern phenomena.

Linky-> lost cities of the rub' al-khali

Salaams kronckew ~ I know the area of Ubar well enough... In fact the local bedu knew of Ubar(from legend) but it wasnt until it was seen on a satelite photo that people pinpointed it. You could ask a bedu at one end of a long track where is Ubar and he would point up the track "Its up that way somewhere".... ...after several kilometres on arriving at the end of the track and upon asking another bedu where is Ubar he would point down the track "Its down that way somewhere".... thus it was until a certain Randolph Fynes spotted the site on satelite imagery.
Regards,
Ibrahiim al Balooshi.