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This time our journey takes us to South Africa where we look for traces of the lost ancient city of Kalahari. It is believed that the ruins of ancient cities lie beneath the sands of the Kalahari Desert and they must be very old. The Kalahari has a total extent of about 850,000 square kilometers (350 000 square miles) and the word Kalahari means “dry, waterless place”.
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The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savannah in southern Africa extending 900,000 square kilometers, covering much of Botswana and parts of Namibia and South Africa. Farini visualized an altar, column or some other kind of monument at the intersection of the two pavements. Unsolved Enigma Of The Lost Ancient City In The Kalahari Desert In 1885, the Canadian Guillermo Farini (pseudonym of William Leonard Hunt) was one of the first westerners to cross the unexplored portion of the Kalahari. If this site is proven to be an artificial pyramid/mound site it could date back to the Predynastic or the Prehistoric period of ancient Egypt, making this one of the oldest known pyramid/mound complexes in Egypt. According to Micol there is incredible evidence at the Abu Sidhum site and the structures could be much older than many in Egypt. Based on the satellite imagery, Micol suggests that the mounds might represent eroded pyramids. has discovered puzzling ancient structures that could be several thousand years old. Something is very large is hidden under the sand and we don’t know what it is.Īngela Micol, founder of The Satellite Archaeology Foundation, Inc. The constructions are either damaged pyramids or antediluvian remains. Satellite images reveal intriguing and mysterious structures in the Sahara desert. What ancient secrets are hidden beneath the sand is still an unsolved mystery. Today there is enough evidence to show that the Sahara desert had once a grassland ecosystem and was a much wetter place than it is today. Then something happened and the Green Sahara turned into a desert. In ancient times, some thousand years ago, the Sahara desert was fertile grassland. Read more 3. Mysterious Ancient Structures Hidden Under The Sand In The Sahara Desert The complex gives an impression of a strange labyrinth surrounded by vast walls, located in the middle of the Kara Kum desert of Turkmenistan, one of the most desolated places of the world.
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People lived in a huge building complex covering approximately 30 hectares that can only be clearly seen from the air. More than four thousand years ago, Gonur Tepe was home to one of the most advanced but little-known civilization in this region of Asia. Within Varosha's limits rare sea turtles nest on the beaches, bougainvilleas overtake deteriorating homes, and wild asparagus and prickly pear plants run rampant.Īs both the maker and a participant, the filmmaker examines the fate of this city in captivity and her family's connection to it.Now, the ruins of the city begin to reveal its ancient artifacts and curious vast walls and structures. Over the last 44 years, Varosha went from being "Cyprus's Riviera", to a dilapidated ghost city its former inhabitants watch their houses decay from outside the barricades. Its citizens are still forbidden to return. Since then, Varosha has been encircled by barbed wire and kept under surveillance by the Turkish military, which uses the territory as a bargaining chip in negotiations with the Cyprus government. Varosha, which was a thriving port city in Famagusta on the east coast of Cyprus, was occupied and all its Greek-Cypriot residents fled their homes. They captured almost 40% of the island and displaced its residents, both Greek- and Turkish-Cypriot. In 1974, a coup backed by the Greek military junta instigated Turkey to invade the nation of Cyprus.