Zerzura
Zerzura ( Arabic زرزورة, DMG Zarzūra ) is the name of one or more legendary, vanished oases . The report is from a white city. She is said to have been in a wadi in the valley of the Nile between Libya and Egypt .
It is mentioned in a document from the middle of the 13th century by Uthman al-Nabulusi , and also in the 15th century by an unknown author in the Kitab ad-durr al-maknuz . John Gardner Wilkinson was the first European to deal with tradition in 1835. The oasis was searched for in the 1930s by Ladislaus Almásy , Ralph Alger Bagnold and Pat Clayton , among others .
The oasis is part of the plot in the video game Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception and is eponymous in the point-and-click adventure Lost Chronicles of Zerzura by dtp entertainment .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ahmed Kamal: Kitāb ad-durr al-maknuz nas-sirr fil-dalā ʾ il wal habājā nad-dafā ʾ in = Livre des perles enfouies et du mystère précieux au sujet des indications des cachettes, des trouvailles et des trésors; 2: [Traduction] . Imprimerie de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale, Le Caire 1907, p. 207, § 369 ( archive.org ).
- ^ John Gardner Wilkinson: Topography of Thebes and General View of Egypt.
- ↑ Ladislaus E. Almásy: The swimmer in the desert. New edition: Haymon Verlag, Innsbruck 1997, ISBN 3423126132
literature
- Saul Kelly: The Lost Oasis: The Desert War and the Hunt for Zerzura. Westview Press, 2002, ISBN 0-7195-61620 .
- Michael Ondaatje: The English Patient (novel)
