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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The Mountain of the Plague
"I don't think somebody probably didn't make that name up for fun," he says. "It's one of those places in the world where if you look at it objectively, are humans supposed to be here? Do we need to go out here?" The Rubak Kali is a vast sand desert covering most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. It rains like maybe 1.4 inches on a good year.
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