Roerich, Gurdjieff, Blavatsky: the secrets of the Gobi desert

During the 1927 expedition to Central Asia, the Russian painter and explorer Nicolas Roerich moved towards the Gobi Desert, in Mongolia, crossing the Qaidam (Tsaidam) salt marsh. Traditions reported by Madame Blavatsky and Georges Ivanovič Gurdjieff, as well as the tales of local folklore, said it was the site of an ancient sea, within which it was handed down that advanced civilizations, now forgotten, and legendary cities, now buried by sands, had developed.