2 legends, 1 gem & mineral ground on the free Club 49 adventure map
What the map holds here
MervLegend By 1150 this was, on Tertius Chandler’s reckoning, the largest city in the world, around 200,000 people, and by 1210 estimates run to half a million, bigger than Constantinople or Baghdad. It sat on the Silk Road in what is now... Open it on the map · Read the story
Nishapur turquoiseGem & mineral ground For over two thousand years the mines above Nishapur in northeastern Iran produced the finest turquoise in the world, the sky-blue “Persian turquoise” that set the standard everywhere and traveled the Silk Road to every court.... Open it on the map
The Darvaza gas craterLegend A hole in the Karakum desert sixty to seventy metres across and about thirty deep that has been on fire since 1971. The usual account is that Soviet engineers drilling here hit a gas cavern, the rig collapsed into it within days,... Open it on the map · Read the story
Every one of these is sourced
Each entry links to the record it came from. Access rules, permits and land status vary by country and are noted where the source states them, check locally before you go.
