The desert of the empty quarter Treasures, secrets and legends

The Golden Sands of the Empty Quarter

One of the most mysterious deserts and the largest connected sand desert in the world, and its name in fact does not predict what it contains of secrets and treasures, it is the desert of the Arabian Peninsula known as the Empty Quarter, which is divided by the borders of four neighboring Arab countries extending over a vast area approaching a quarter of the area of the Arabian Peninsula, its sands hide huge oil fields, and inhabited by the jinn since ancient times, and the habitats of the defunct people returned, let's explore together some of the secrets of the Empty Quarter desert Let's see Do you deserve this name or not.

Reason for naming:

The Empty Quarter desert was named by this name, which appears from its vast area, which is almost a quarter of the area of the Arabian Peninsula, which is almost thought by those who enter it as an endless sea of sand with an area of 600 thousand square kilometers, and because of its lack of human life, it was called the Empty Quarter.

Features of the Empty Quarter desert

It's a land of fantasy... A boundless desert, like fantasy stories with those giant moving sand dunes that reach several tens of meters that compete in height with the height of some high-rise residential buildings, and these picturesque red dunes gather to draw shapes resembling the veins of the hand, which gives them a hidden spirit that increases its mystery those sounds that are heard by those who enter the Empty Quarter desert, which the Bedouins call "Al-Azif".

Alazif ... The sound of the Empty Quarter desert

Al-Azif in the language is a sound attributed to the sand and does not know what it is, and scholars and the people of neighboring areas differed in the interpretation of those sounds that come from the Empty Quarter desert, which gives the place an aura of excitement and curiosity, some of them said that it is the sounds of the jinn that inhabit the Empty Quarter desert for thousands of years, and others said that it is the sounds of sand dunes very soft when strong winds pass through them, but in fact there is no study that confirms or denies the source of The sound and its reason for the survival of the instrument is the sound of the mysterious Empty Quarter desert and its way of increasing the excitement and curiosity of everyone who thinks of visiting it.

Treasures of the Empty Quarter desert

Indeed, the Empty Quarter desert does not deserve this name, which it is famous for, and it is said that the neighboring Bedouins call it the Precious Quarter, and you will be surprised if you know how many treasures and riches are under those red sand dunes, it is enough to know that it has some of the largest oil fields in the world such as the Ghawari field and the Shaybah field, which produce more than 5 million barrels of oil per day, and these numbers have been extended for more than 70 years and it is expected that they will continue to produce a lot For dozens of years.

The beauty of nature in the Empty Quarter

The most beautiful features of nature are formed in the Empty Quarter desert after its rains helped in the formation of some natural life and the formation of some small lakes that have become a hotbed for some wild animals and birds that the region has never seen before, giving the area stunning views among those giant sand dunes whose lengths sometimes exceed residential towers.

The effects of the people of Aad

Some scientists discovered a group of antiquities belonging to the people of the defunct Aad that lived on the land of the Arabian Peninsula during the exploration of some natural gas fields, and they also discovered a castle with eight ribs up to the height of its walls for more than 9 meters and a diameter of 3 meters, and that castle was discovered at a depth of 10 meters at the hands of some archaeological missions in 1991.

Scientists also found some fragments belonging to archaeological pottery vessels, some incense and coins, as well as the remains of bones of a hippopotamus, which lives only next to rivers, proving that this desert was in the past nothing but a green land with rivers and eyes that cannot be imagined today.

The legend of the fairy Hamda

The Bedouins adjacent to the Empty Quarter desert near the road between Najran and Sharurah tell that there is a fairy named "Hamda" who harasses passers-by on that road at night by issuing some sounds that resemble the sound of cars or by making a loud sound similar to drumming and screaming, and it is said that she always wears a long dress in order to hide her feet that resemble the feet of a donkey, and this legend remains one of the most famous legends of the Empty Quarter desert that has been transmitted by tongues since ancient times.