The Nameless City by H. P. Lovecraft. Short summary

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In the middle of the desert, the explorer finds the ruins of the legendary Nameless City and descends into an underground temple that was built by an ancient race of reptiles.

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On a moonlit night, a certain archaeologist set out to search in the silent Arabian desert for the mysterious Nameless City, which Arabs are very afraid to visit.

The search for the scientist was successful, he begins to excavate and finds a temple carved into the rock. Down the passage in the wall of the temple, the archaeologist finds himself in a huge room where there are coffins with mummies of reptiles. On the walls are carved frescoes that tell the story of this civilization.

The nameless city was built by an ancient race of reptiles. These creatures moved by crawling, so all the passages are so low. The reptilian race lived more than 10 million years ago and was more advanced than the Egyptians. This city in those days stood on the shore of the sea. When the water left, the civilization fell into decline and went down under the ground, to the Lower World. Gradually the creatures degraded and hated the Upper World.

At the end of the hall, the archaeologist found a gateway that led even lower. Suddenly terrible creatures appeared from the gate and carried the scholar away into the blackness.