We begin our journey on the Wikipedia page titled Rub’ Al Khali, or “the empty quarter”.
The Rub’ al Khali is the sand desert encompassing most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula. The desert covers some 650,000 km2 (250,000 sq mi) including parts of Saudi Arabia, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. It is part of the larger Arabian Desert.’
The “empty quarter” is so called because it’s mostly void of inhabitants.
The page has only this to say about its History:
Desertification has increased through recent millennia. Before desertification made the caravan trails leading across the Rub’ al Khali so difficult, the caravans of the frankincense trade crossed now virtually impassable stretches of land, until about 300 AD. It has been suggested that Ubar or Iram, a lost city, region or people, depended on such trade. The archaeological remains of Iram include a fortification/administration building, walls and bases of circular pillars. The traces of camel tracks, unidentifiable on the ground, appear in satellite images.
That’s all folks. Nothing more to see here. And it’s been this way since the year 300. There’s mention of an ancient city called Iram in the Quran, so there’s that. But nothing more.
But if we look at maps from the 1500s, 1600s and 1700s of Arabia, we realize that Historians are lying.
The following is a 1573 map of Saudi Arabia, drawn by Abraham Ortelius. There are many other maps like it.
Notice anything?
That’s right. The empty quarter is anything but empty. Instead we see a place more densely populated than anywhere else on the Peninsula.
Let’s Zoom in to the place that’s today called the empty Quarter:
Wow. That’s city after city of towers and spires. Some of the town names, such as Mirbat, Magiarabat, Maffa or Rada sound Arabic. Others don’t: Corx, Syr, Brun, Zeber, Giohlach, Elfergiech, Irmin, Gubelaman, Xesequi for example. Giohlach, Irmin, Elfergiech,and Gubelamann are most certainly ancient German.
But the big question is: Where did all these cities disappear to? Why is there no mention of them in History books? (I’ve looked around and found no mention of them outside of old maps).
Official History tells us that there was nothing there after 300 AD. You can see why anything mainstream Historians tell us should be taken with great skepticism.
Is the empty quarter desert the site of an ancient war of mass destruction? Are these cities still buried below the sand? The same page reveals this:
In June 1950, a US Air Force expedition crossed the Rub’ al Khali from Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, to central Yemen and back in trucks to collect specimens for the Smithsonian Institution and to test desert survival procedures.
Whenever Smithsonian is mentioned, I think of ancient artifacts being stolen, destroyed and hidden away. What kind of “specimen” are these artifact-thieves collecting? If the Smithsonian had the assistance of the Air Force that’s even more troubling. What Business do these people have in Saudi Arabia? Who let them in?
Rub’ Al Khali forms a long shape in its north:
This covers an area where seven cities from Lacach to Sachada used to be:
This is no coincidence. The desert mirrors the areas of highest ancient population density. The desert is the result of war on those cities.
We see lakes and rivers, meaning southern Arabia was at one time fertile.
Muslims teach that at one time “in the distant past” Arabia was green and fertile. They also says that “in the last days” Arabia will become green again. However, these sayings, from the Hadith by the prophet Mohammed are said to have been made in the year 632. This map is said to be from 1573. Either the maps showing a fertile Arabia were made much earlier or the Hadith were written much later.
The map lists only few familiar places, one of them being Mecca. But most of these towns and their language are unfamiliar to modern Arabs.
I’ve spent an hour browsing the empty quarter desert on Google Earth. Here’s what I discovered.
I’ve found certain parts are blurred out by Google. We all know that if they want, they have the sharpest images. Blur-out is because something is being hidden. Here for instance, in the northernmost part of the empty quarter I was following what looked like an ancient road that led to….a blur.
With all those ancient cities buried below it, this desert holds enormous potential for undigging the lost civilization and possibly even ancient technology. There are many hints at artificial structures buried beneath the sands:
For comparison, this is what most of the empty quarter looks like, with no sign of artificial build:
This, on the other hand, is surely artificial:
As in deserts elsewhere in the world, there is no shortage of perfectly straight grids and lines moving hundreds of miles through the desert:
The same lines continued:
Nothing screams censorship more than a blur pasted over a dark object. If this quarter is so empty, then what’s there to hide?
I find another dark spot nearby that was not blurred and promptly find an X, likely only visible from the air, carved into the landscape.
This gem was found in the middle of nowhere, with no connecting modern roads, no obvious surface objects, no nearby towns. It’s a subsurface structure but we can see its outlines.
Saudi Arabia also has the grid matrix etched into hundreds or even thousands of square miles:
Close up:
The following image could be of ancient waterways, but they remind me more of a Lichtenberg figure.
“A Lichtenberg figure, or Lichtenberg dust figure, is a branching electric discharge that sometimes appears on the surface or in the interior of insulating materials. Lichtenberg figures are often associated with the progressive deterioration of high voltage components and equipment”.
In my mind, we’re looking at the remains of electronic warfare from the air.
Traces and hints of artificial building are easy to find in the not-so-empty quarter.
Perfect circles and lines are not commonly found in nature.
This looks like a bomb created a blast that generated lines in all directions:
Interestingly, this place is called Rayda and lies at the approximate location we find “Rada” on the ancient map.
All of this is from a brief browsing of Google Maps that I strictly limited to 1 hour. Just think of what one could find with a little more time.
Here is a map of Arabia claimed to be from 1525:
The southern portion was called “Felix” which is not Arabic but Latin. Fascinating: We see the Kingdom of Saba (Queen of Sheba, today’s Yemen) labeled as such. This fits to my theory that the events described in Religion are more recent than we are told.
Strange: The map does not appear to list Mecca, which is said to have already been there in the year 600. Again, there’s something off about the timelines. Is this map older than they say or is Mecca newer than they say?
This is a 1725 map of the area. Even though some of the town names have changed since the 1500s, and it’s a little emptier than previous maps, we still see no “empty quarter”.
And this is a map published in 1780 which clearly denotes our area as “arid desert”. The towns and cities have now disappeared.
We find the same on maps elsewhere in the world – densely populated Tartaria turned into frozen and buried Siberia. Africa, a country of kingdoms and large cities, turned into unknown lands. Western America, once densely populated, turned into desert. And it all happened in the 1700s and early 1800s.
The earliest map I found of the southern desert is labeled with the year 1740. The latest map I found of the populated southern Arabia is from 1730.
We can therefore consider that the great war of destruction happened some time between 1730 and 1740.
This neatly coincides with the emergence of the current Saudi Ruling family. According to a page about the Arabian Peninsula:
The emergence of what was to become the Saudi royal family, known as the Al Saud, began in Najd in central Arabia in 1744, when Muhammad bin Saud, founder of the dynasty, joined forces with the religious leader Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, founder of the Wahhabi movement, a strict puritanical form of Sunni Islam. The Emirate of Diriyah established in the area around Riyadh rapidly expanded and briefly controlled most of the present-day territory of Saudi Arabia, sacking Karbala in 1802, and capturing Mecca in 1803…
This is all very interesting. Former Arabia is wiped off the map, and that marks the beginning of hundreds of years of rule of the Saud family.
The page History of Saudi Arabia sees the emergence of the Saud family having begun in 1727, not in 1744:
The emergence of the Saudi dynasty began in central Arabia in 1727…
The First Saudi State was established in 1727 in the area around Riyadh…
None of the History pages I viewed had anything to say about how dozens of cities and hundreds of towns disappeared from existence.
First you have a thriving, fertile country full of people, animals, plants, trees, rivers, lakes and trade. And then, all of a sudden, you have a deserted wasteland. I’m genuinely surprised nobody is asking how that came to be in such a short time.
From the page “Iram of the Pillars” (bolding mine):
Iram of the Pillars is a lost city mentioned in the Quran.
The Quran mentions Iram in connection with ʿimād (pillars):
89:6 Did you not see how your Lord dealt with ʿĀd—
89:7 ˹the people˺ of Iram—with ˹their˺ great stature,
89:8 unmatched in any other land;
89:9 and Thamûd who carved ˹their homes into˺ the rocks in the ˹Stone˺ Valley;
89:10 and the Pharaoh of mighty structures?
89:11 They all transgressed throughout the land,
89:12 spreading much corruption there.
89:13 So your Lord unleashed on them a scourge of punishment.
89:14 ˹For˺ your Lord is truly vigilant.
— Surah al-Fajr (6-14)[2]
As in any other place, we find ancient scripture saying that the grand structures were deliberately destroyed by a higher power.
As in other places, there are some remains which hint at the level of sophistication of these destroyed civilizations.
Mada’in Salih:
Shuaib Caves:
Al Naslaa:
The laser-perfect cut you see here is not the result of nature.
From the page Atlantis of the Sands (bolding mine):
Atlantis of the Sands refers to a legendary lost place in the southern deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, known as Ūbār in Arabic, thought to have been destroyed by a natural disaster or as a punishment by God.
This kind of thing seems like a diversion to me. I did not find “Ubar” on any of the old maps. I found dozens of other real cities one could dig for, but no Ubar. Are such legends placed into the public mind to distract from the real stuff? The modern day archaeological site at Ubar in Yemen, contains a few small buildings made of rocks but nothing as impressive as we will find buried below the sands.
The most fascinating aspect of this is that the ruling elite of Saudi Arabia, that took over after a great, apocalyptic reset, still rules to this day. From this we might infer that similar applies to other countries.