When he was unable to identify its exact location, however, he turned to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for assistance in applying orbital remote sensing techniques. In satellite images he found evidence of ancient caravan routes that were invisible from the ground. Nicholas Clapp, a filmmaker and archeology enthusiast, had accumulated extensive information concerning Ubar, the fabled lost city of ancient Arabia. 1460 had misled generations of explorers. Poring over ancient manuscripts, he discovered that a slip of the pen in a.d. Nel corso dei secoli moLti tentarono di riportarla in luce fino a quando, negli anni Ottanta, Nicholas CLapp, in una serie di manoscritti, scopr che daL 1460 tutti i suoi predecessori erano stati fuorviati daLl'errore di un amanuense che, nel copiare la mappa tolemaica, aveva confuso l'87 di latitudine con il 78. In 1980, he decided to pursue the lost city, a la Coronado, and assembled a small team of adventurers. Per questo le tocc la stessa fine di Sodoma 'e Gomorra. He was a film maker based in Los Angeles. Then in the 1980s Nicholas Clapp stumbled on the legend. Much of the concluding part of the work concerned Nicholas Clapp’s 1998 work entitled The Road to Ubar. L’Atlantide del deserto, Mondadori, 1999 Prima edizione in questa collana. Documentary filmmaker and amateur archaeologist Nicholas Clapp first stumbled on the legend of Ubar in the 1980s while poring over historical manuscripts. Buried in the desert without a trace, it became known as "the Atlantis of the Sands." Over the centuries, many searched for it unsuccessfully, including Lawrence of Arabia, and skepticism grew that there had ever been a real place called Ubar. The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the entire land." But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people.
0 kommentar(er)
