Word: dasht
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tabas, an ancient oasis located between Iran's vast salt desert of Dasht-i-Kavir and the more forbidding Dasht-i-Lut (Naked Desert) to the south, never had a chance. When the tremors began, most residents were at home, eating or enjoying the cool desert breeze that had begun to blow after torrid daytime temperatures. Once the shaking subsided, only six buildings in the town were still recognizable. Even the few newer buildings of steel-beam construction had collapsed...
...shadow of Iran's Zagros Mountains stands a forbidding wasteland known as Dasht-i-Lut (Great Sand Desert). There, for thousands of years, howling sandstorms have been shifting the dunes and wearing the rocks into fantastical shapes. Convinced that no civilization could have risen and thrived under these inhospitable conditions, archaeologists long bypassed the area...