Is there any info/estimate of the possible age of this crater? It has the potential to be the cause of the 1st, 2nd or 3rd Intermediate Periods in Egypt, or perhaps the strange weather of Cassiodorus in the 500s AD. I saw an old National Geographic from the 1970s were a man traveled deep into the great southern desert of Saudi Arabia and found an iron meteor about 4 ft cubed. There were legends of how a wicked city in this area had been destroyed. Sounded a bit like Sodom and Gamorrah. The name Warab, Wahab, or or Wabar comes to mind for the name of this crater or event. Don’t hold me to it, memeory is getting aged.
There is also tektite glass used for some stuff for King Tut, and the source of that has apparently been identified. :')Wabar ImpactDeep in the legendary Empty Quarter of Saudi Arabia-the Rub' al-Khali-lies a strange area, half a square kilometer (over 100 acres) in size, covered with black glass, white rock and iron shards. It was first described to the world in 1932 by Harry St. John "Abdullah" Philby, a British explorer perhaps better known as the father of the infamous Soviet double-agent Kim Philby. The site he depicted had been known to several generations of roving al-Murra Bedouin as al-Hadida, "the iron things." What he found was neither the lost city of Ubar nor the basis for the Qur'anic story. But it was certainly the setting of a cataclysm that came out of the skies: the arrival of a meteorite. Judging from the traces left behind, the crash would have been indistinguishable from a nuclear blast of about 12 kilotons, comparable to the Hiroshima bomb. Wabar-size meteoroids are much more common-and harder for astronomers to spot-than the big monsters. Ironically, until the Wabar expeditions, we knew the least about the most frequent events. The slag and shocked rock in the deserts of Arabia have shown us in remarkable detail what the smaller beasts can do.
SciAm
Nov 1998