Lost City of the Kalahari Desert

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	goldigger, interesting pictures. Even though those roads seem close to those ruins, I imagine someone, passing by, probably wouldn"t have any idea they were even there. hardluck, A book by Farini/Hunt, Through the Kalahari Desert, has a full view on books.google.com. I was supposed to be working awhile ago <sigh> but I didn"t see his description of the city. Admit I got sidetracked with a section on diamonds. My connection here at home is not fast, but thought I would pass along the link. You are not allowed to view links. Please Register or Login http://books.google.com/books?id=TzUPAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Through+the+kalahari+desert#v=onepage&q=&f=false This story about the lost city gets stranger the more I read. Some think the city was partially destroyed when the continent shifted - calling it almost an Atlantis. Others say Farini doctored rocks with lines. The following book has photos of what that author thinks Farini saw. Another google book. I think the link should go to page 409 of Lost Cities & Ancient Mysteries Africa and Arabia by David Hatcher Childress.   You are not allowed to view links. Please Register or Login http://books.google.com/books?id=prq6ykijSyQC&pg=PA392&lpg=PA392&dq=clement+kalahari&source=bl&ots=dRe-mlQZUX&sig=ronOU26iVEkLcXOPK79Fz8ID_Uo&hl=en&ei=tWPrSprlOJXiMNaNpYMM&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CA0Q6AEwADgK#v=onepage&q=clement%20kalahari&f=false

I wondered myself if those ruins were visible from ground level, they might not be more than an inch or two, just enough to show from the heavenly eye! And I have more!

Those books are both interesting, praat u Afrikaans? It would seem to be handy at least for one book... I found a prime example of the Afrikaans double negative, in viewing it! No, I am not fluent in Afrikaans, wish I was.

If I can get a copy of each book, I want read with a note bok, take notes and I might get a few clues on where to look with Google Earth!

It will be a while, though.

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	goldigger, interesting pictures. Even though those roads seem close to those ruins, I imagine someone, passing by, probably wouldn"t have any idea they were even there.

As I said, I have more pictures, a couple from the Namib or the Kalahari and one from Chile which is  a place ripe for metal locators, if you can get along with the archaeologists and talk fast in Spanish.

The pictures:
1) tombs - you may have noticed all the bumps, in some of the pictures, these seem to be tombs and this picture accidentally shows a nice pentagon arrangement!
2) Afghan - another buried building.
3) Sahara - this perfectly straight object is about 2.4 miles long... look at the scale, lower left. There are several more of these, not too far away.
4) This a strange platform, perhaps a temple, east of the Silk Road, over the rocky ridge, and on the edge of the sand dunes. It can be found from the co-ordinates or the black shadow just to the north west.
5) a view of the only think remotely looking like a lost city... I have no idea what it is. I have a closer view to upload, later.


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Great pictures, goldigger - you"ve discovered some interesting areas. The pentagon arrangement and temple platform really captured my attention. All were neat, but those two - cool finds! That long straight line. Big ?

Hardluck, $1000 for Farini"s book - wow. I didn"t see any map on the google one - I didn"t get to spend much time on it though. I checked the university library, here, and they didn"t have a copy. Nice pictures adding to the puzzle. My first thought was monkey art, but what do I know. It sure looks old.

Here"s an article I saw awhile ago - I wanted to share it and, while it doesn"t perfectly fit here, it is from an area just east of the Kalahari. It was legendary, for hundreds of years, as a hill with a treasure of gold buried at the summit. It was found in the 1930s. The Hill of the Jackal with a picture of some gold artifacts. Sue

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Wow,

Those pics really capture the imagination. Do you have the co-ordinates for each site?
Like you say, why and what are they.

We all know the stories of lost cities and what they yield.

Might be worth a trip

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Hello All.

Gold digger your mention of the Takla Makan has sparked my old brain cells, the ones I have left 

Memory of an old book. So I looked through my files. There was an explorer searching for the fabled lake Lop Nor allegedly mentioned by Marco Polo who claimed the city was on the shore of a great lake or inland sea.

There was an expedition in or around 1900 they could no find no trace of the lake. However one explorer had a theory about the legendary wandering lake it depended on climatic conditions and finally in 1935 he discovered that the rivers every so many years change there course and some times for a time refill the lake.To day the lake does not exist and the Chinese have used the area for atomic bomb tests.

In the course of their exploration they rediscovered the lost city of Lou Lan which one of a series of forts along a desert part of silk road that was abandoned. they several hundred graves many had been looted by treasure hunters. However in some they found well preserved remains of people who lived over 2000 years ago. There head stones were timber poles stuck into the ground. They found several cemeteries like this.

The site had remains of houses temple and a curtain wall. Much was buried by sand and debris.

For me I enjoy old Photographs of old long forgotten expeditions into remote and rarely seen parts of the world and that some times another interesting story to tell.

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I'm resurrecting this topic due to having found an invaluable resource: a microfilm/internet version of "Through The Kalahari" with illustrations.  I hope you guys are still around and enjoy. =)

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