The Lost City of the Kalahari: Farini’s Ruins in the Sand
About 4 min readThe Great Farini walked into the Kalahari in 1885 and walked out with a story: a mile of ruined wall, a paved plaza, a Maltese cross in stone. A century of expeditions has found no brick, no pot, no trace of a city — only a dolerite formation that looks, at a glance, like masonry. Was Farini a discoverer, a showman, or a man fooled by geology?