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The sand is treated with a hydrophobic compound to produce what is commonly known as magic sand or Moon Sand. When poured into water, it naturally clings to other grains, forming piles or lumps at the bottom of the bowl. The sand can be poured rapidly in a spray and will still re-form, adding to the illusion of it mixing into the water.
The “revered” temple was named “Eninnu, the White Thunderbird,” researchers said. The search for this 4,500-year-old sanctuary “obsessed generations of archaeologists.”
The Lut Desert, widely referred to as Dasht-e Lut (Persian: دشت لوت, "Emptiness Plain"), is a salt desert located in the provinces of Kerman and Sistan-Baluchestan, Iran. It is the world's 33rd-largest desert , and was included in UNESCO 's World Heritage List on July 17, 2016. [ 2 ]
Archaeologists discovered a 4,000- to 5,000-year-old ceremonial temple within a sand dune in Peru. Tucked between the ruin’s walls, the excavation team located burial remains of three humans.
• Yellow/white: sand • Green: vegetation • Blue: salty sediments. The Richat Structure is the location of exceptional accumulations of Acheulean artifacts. [14] [15] These Acheulean archaeological sites are located along wadis that occupy the outermost annular depression of this structure. Pre-Acheulean stone tools also have been found in ...
The Greco-Roman period was a time of prosperity. There is the ruin of a temple dedicated to Ammon by Alexander the Great located in Qasr el-Miqisba ('Ain et-Tibniya). It is believed by some Egyptologists that Alexander passed through Bahariya while returning from the oracle of Ammon at Siwa Oasis.
The desert is 1,000 kilometres (620 miles) long, and 500 kilometres (310 miles) wide. [4] Its surface elevation varies from 800 metres (2,600 ft) in the southwest to around sea level in the northeast. [5] Most of the terrain is ergs, with sand dunes up to 250 metres (820 ft) high, interspersed with gravel and gypsum plains.
They then turned the air stream off before the start of the experiment and allowed the sand to settle: the packing fraction of this sand was only 41% (compared to 55–60% for untreated sand). [ 1 ] Lohse found that a weighted table tennis ball (radius 2 cm, mass 133 g), when released from just above the surface of the sand, would sink to about ...