PlacesThe Nameless City
The nameless city is an immensely ancient settlement in the Arabian desert whose low architecture and underground records preserve the history of a nonhuman civilization. An unnamed explorer discovers that the reptilian figures in its art are not merely symbolic representations of human inhabitants. The city’s ruins, passages and luminous abyss turn archaeology into a confrontation with a past that has not become safely extinct.
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