How a British explorer's search for an ancient lost city uncovered a traveler from the stars instead
LONDON: It was, in the words of a 1998 report published in Scientific American, “the day the sands caught fire.” The sands in question were at an isolated spot deep in Saudi Arabia’s Rub Al-Khali, or Empty Quarter. The fire, which melted half a square kilometer of desert and transformed it into black glass, fell from the sky in one of the most dramatic meteorite strikes the
Source: arabnews.com