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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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The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

T.E. Lawrence wrote a book about the Seven Pillars of Wisdom at Wadi al-Hussein in Iraq. The formation is now known as the "Seven Pillars" But that's not its original name, which was like Jabbal al-Mamsar, the mountain of the plague. So this was renamed to make it more popular for tourism.

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