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The Lost City of Ubar: The True Story of "The Atlantis of the Sands"

Stuff They Don't Want You To Know

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In 1946, an English explorer named Wilfred Thessiger found evidence of a fort in Oman. Two years later, Bedouins and oil company employees are traveling there to survey Daufar province. They find the wall of a ruined fort built above this large cave but obscured by sand dune.

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