Weird coincidences?

[Biomiast]

Hi to all,

I want to share a few things that caught my eye during reading websites. I don't propose any link between those events but it seems weird to me and I wanted to share so to see what you think.

I have read that Rupert Murdouch visited Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan recently with a book in his hand called "The Empty Quarter" a desert in Arabian Peninsula. Appearently, the book talks about an archeological discovery by the author Jack Philby where he discovered a city which was destroyed and buried into sands. This city is called Ubar or Wabar and associated with Wabar impact craters caused by meteorites.

Philby had heard of bedouin legends of an area called Al Hadida ('place of iron' in Arabic) with ruins of ancient habitations, and also an area where a piece of iron the size of a camel had been found, and so organized an expedition to visit the site. After a month's journey through wastes so harsh that even some of the camels died, on 2 February 1932 Philby arrived at a patch of ground about a half a square kilometer in size, littered with chunks of white sandstone, black glass, and chunks of iron meteorite.

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The Wabar site covers about 500 by 1,000 meters, and the most recent mapping shows three prominent, roughly circular craters. Five were reported by Philby in 1932, the largest of which measured 116 and 64 meters wide. Another was described by the 2nd Zahid expedition and is 11 meters wide: this may be one of the other three originally described by Philby. They are all underlain by a hemispherical rim of "insta-Rock," so called because it was created from local sand by the impact shock wave, and all three are nearly full of sand.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wabar_craters

And this city is also believed to be mentioned in the Quran by the name Iram, City of the Thousand Pillars which was destroyed by God because they did not obey the laws of prophet Hud.

6: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with 'Aad - 7: [With] Iram - who had lofty pillars, 8: The likes of whom had never been created in the lands 9: And [with] Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley? 10: And [with] Pharaoh, owner of the stakes? - 11: [All of] whom oppressed within the lands 12: And increased therein the corruption. 13: So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment. 14: Indeed, your Lord is in observation.

It is also called Atlantis of the Sands.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iram_of_the_Pillars

Just my two cents, fwiw.