Going back at least two millennia, stories about a vast city filled with gold that disappeared almost in an instant haunt the literature and lore of Arabia. In The Road to Ubar, filmmaker Nicholas Clapp follows in the footsteps of earlier visitors to the Arabian peninsula as he seeks the legendary city of Ubar. Lawrence to Gertrude Bell-wandering through the vast, empty sands of "the empty quarter" in what is now Saudi Arabia each of these explorers has been drawn to places most of us would never think of going and found there an unexpected window onto their own souls. What is it about the inhospitable corners of the world that so attracts the imagination? Scott in the Antarctic, Hillary on top of Everest, and a multitude of wanderers-from Wilfred Thesiger and T. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. After many false starts, dead ends, and weeks of digging, they uncovered a remarkable walled city with eight towers, thi Finally he organized two expeditions to Arabia with a team of archaeologists, geologists, space scientists, and adventurers. In satellite images he found evidence of ancient caravan routes that were invisible from the ground. 1460 had misled generations of explorers. Poring over ancient manuscripts, he discovered that a slip of the pen in a.d. Then in the 1980s Nicholas Clapp stumbled on the legend. Buried in the desert without a trace, it became known as "the Atlantis of the Sands." Over the centuries, many searched for it unsuccessfully, including Lawrence of Arabia, and skepticism grew that there had ever been a real place called Ubar. The most fabled city in ancient Arabia was Ubar, described in the Koran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the entire land." But like Sodom and Gomorrah, Ubar was destroyed by God for the sins of its people.