Silashu Ruins

Rabi-Silashu thought his career was done for when a sandstorm sent his caravan off track. They were running behind schedule as it was, and the time spent waiting out the storm and then navigating back to their route through the Eni Belul would make his boss livid. Te shipment of tropical fruits from Maloa would have gone bad by the time they reached the royal table.
It was as he contemplated his life choices while trekking over a dune that he first saw the roof of a building sticking up out of the sand. Silashu spent a whole minute rubbing his eyes and checking with his companions to see if it was a mirage before taking one companion, leaving the Camelops, and going to check it out. What he found was what appeared to be the shingled roof of a building sticking up a foot from the sand. It must have been uncovered by the sandstorm.
When Rabi-Silashu returned to Tirasha, his boss was indeed livid and swore to never put him in charge of a caravan again. But, his story of finding a building buried in the desert quickly spread. There were those who thought it a ridiculous story he'd made up to save face, and some who thought he'd been convinced by a mirage, but a small group of scholars approached him and offered the newly-unemployed Silashu a large sum to lead them to the building.
Once they arrived, the scholars and their hired labourers set to work excavating the building. The quickly discovered that what they'd found was just the top floor of a 2 storey building, and more ruins surrounded it. For several months, they worked day and night out in the desert to excavate the ruins and document their findings. The lead researcher had this to say:

The findings at the Silashu site bring an unprecedented view into the past. Over twenty buildings have been found, remarkably well preserved. It seems that they were buried in a sandstorm and have been hidden under the sand ever since, protecting them from the elements. It is impossible to give them an exact date, but we found bones of aurochs in the middens and iron pieces that are likely the heads of agricultural devices.

I propose that the area used to not be the desert wasteland it is today. Perhaps in the distant past, green life flourished in what is now the heart of the Eni Belul basin, allowing whoever build these structures to live a pastoral life. For such a change in environment, that would date these ruins at over ten thousand years old!

The most intriguing find, however, was the positioning of doorways on the tallest

Unfortunately, his journal was stored in the royal library of Tirasha, which was struck by a tsunami during Fourth Reckoning. The scrap above is the only surviving remnant.
After the find, the ruins had become something of a tourist spot and wealthy people paid large fees to be taken into the deep desert to marvel at the ancient structures. After the Second Reckoning, interest in the ruins vanished as survival and rebuilding became paramount on everyone's minds. By the time anyone cared to visit the ruins again, their preceise location had been lost.
Intrepid explorers have tried to find the ruins again, but most fear that the entire site has been buried under the sand again.

RUINED SETTLEMENT
At least 10,000 years ago

Type

Village

Location under

Eni Belul