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Secret Ancient World Buried Under The Vast Takla Makan Desert
Sunday, September 8, 2013 13:15
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Ancient people believed that once you entered this place there was no way out.
A very long time ago, there were houses and temples here. Today, everything is buried under the sand.
Precious ancient relics are hidden deep under the “Sea of Death”, or the Takla Makan desert.
Archaeologists are beginning to discover some of the secrets that have been hidden in this mysterious region. Still, it seems that we are only scratching the surface and only time will tell what more wonders are waiting to be unraveled.
The Talka Makan Desert is the largest desert in China. Image credit: www.4deserts.com
The Taklamakan desert is the largest desert in China and it is also considered to be the world’s second largest shifting-sand desert covering an area of over 33, 700 square kilometers (over 13,000 square miles).
In Uigur language, Takla Makan means ‘you can get into it but can never get out’ and that is why the desert is also called ‘the Sea of Death’.
The Takla Makan desert is as beautiful as dangerous, people say…
According to an ancient legend, once a long time ago, a powerful Supernatural Being who saw the hardship being faced by the people in this area, thought that he could help them by using the two magic objects in his possession namely the golden axe and the golden key.
He gave his golden axe to the Kazakh, so they split the mountain Altai and diverted water from the mountains to the fields.
The Supernatural Being planned to give the golden key to the Uigur so that they could open the door of the treasure-house of the Tarim Basin, but unfortunately his youngest daughter lost the key.
This angered him so much that he held her a captive in the Tarim Basin and thus the Takla Makan Desert was formed.
