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The bottom of the city, he said, is believed to reach 30 feet below ground.Д¬lapp said the search team has identified the city through pottery that has been unearthed, but he acknowleged archeologists will not be '100 percent sure' it is Ubar until inscriptions are analyzed. The digging led to the remains of an eight-sided structure, a fortress with 10 foot to 12 foot walls 2 feet thick and 60 feet long, that is believed to have served as the home of the king at the center of what was the tent city of Ubar.Д¬lapp said the digging is continuing, and his team has applied for a five-year excavation permit from the nation of Oman. 'As little as six weeks ago, we were on the brink of total failure.Д«ut then Clapp and his team began gingerly digging at the site where the carvan routes converged - and within days found walls of the ancient city 'within a couple of feet' below the surface.

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'The key clues were the old caravan routes,' Clapp said, referring to the series of submerged desert roads carved out by teams of hundreds of thousands of camels that converged on a single site. Ronald Blom, one of the JPL scientists, said that after determining Clapp and his team were serious, scientists scanned more than 50images of the area where Ubar was described by ancient maps and books as being located. You will get a chance to learn about the Frankincense, its use in the past and in the modern world.Д«y the sunset, you will return to Salalah.But then Clapp read in a magazine about a special radar system that was flown on the last successful mission of the space shuttle Challenger, and approached members of the imaging team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. This place is famous for the biggest collection of the naturally grown Frankincense trees in the region. While driving back to Salalah, you can explore the UNESCO World Heritage Site- Wadi вЂDawkaвЂ™ that is also known as the Frankincense Wadi. From the top of the sand dunes, you will enjoy a breathtaking overview of the vast desert. This buried city was spotted by satellite, which can give you a glimpse of the value of work carried out by a team of explorers in the year 1992, which was led by Sir Ranulph Fiennes.ДЄfter exploring the site by walking, you proceed to the Empty Quarter to experience the biggest sand desert in the world that called Rub al Khali by rambling on the fascinating sand dunes. Literally, Ubar sank without a trace and become the fabled Atlantis of the Sands. According to the myth, it is believed that the desert swallowed up Ubar. Al Khali desert is also known as the Empty Quarter. Ubar is an ancient kingdom that is said to have existed in one of the most inhospitable places on earth that are Al Khali desert, which is a vast and forbidding Rub.

You will then visit the Lost City of Ubar (a UNESCO World Heritage Site), which is just 175 km away from Salalah. Then you proceed west on the graded road by crossing the huge gravel desert of Al Nejd. The Thumrait town was famous as a Bedouin settlement. In the Thumrait town, you will have a small break. We drive you towards the Qara mountain range that is known for its spectacular view of the Salalah plains and is dotted with thick shrub and woodland.

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Your full day the Lost City Of Ubar And Rub Al Khali tour will start in the morning by a 4x4 vehicle.