In the year 1863, five Arabian nomads set out into the desert known as Rub’ al Khali (The Empty Quarter) in search of the legendary and mysterious city of Ubar. But little did they know that they would instead find something much greater and more mysterious.

About four days into their journey, they had covered a great portion of the desert, yet they had found nothing. Out of nowhere, a sudden sandstorm emerged from the east. They started going southwest, but the storm seemed to be coming from that direction as well. Every time they tried to go in a different direction, the storm intensified, leaving them no choice but to go northwest, whereupon they had no difficulty with the sandstorm. It was almost as if the storm were forcing them to go that way.

Soon they came across what appeared to be two meteorite craters. Not knowing what they represented, one of them said that perhaps they were the remains of Ubar, since God had made the ground swallow the city. While two others of the nomads agreed with him, they still felt like it was something different that they simply couldn’t explain. Another one suggested that they were just holes in the sand, while the lead nomad watched in silence, wondering what exactly these holes might represent.

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