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Much of the fortress had collapsed into a sinkhole that hosted the well, perhaps undermined by ground water being taken to irrigate the surrounding oasis.
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And in his text that accompanied the maps, he's very clear about that. It's very clear on Ptolemy's second century map of the area. If you look at the classical texts and the Arab historical sources, Ubar refers to a region and a group of people, not to a specific town. There's a lot of confusion about that word. Īrchaeologist Juris Zarins discussed Ubar in a 1996 NOVA interview: The term Atlantis of the Sands had originally been coined by T. In 1992 Ranulph Fiennes wrote a book called Atlantis of the Sands about the expedition. In November 1991, the remains of a settlement were discovered in southern Oman which was hypothesized to be the legendary lost city claimed to have been destroyed by God. The oldest mention of the city of Iram was found in the Ebla tablets, dated from c. Iram became widely known to Western literature with the translation of the story "The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kilabah" in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights.
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He claims that coins made of this gold remain buried and that Iram is the name of a tribe of ʿĀd and not a location. The mystic ad-Dabbagh has suggested that these verses refer to ʿĀd's tents with pillars, both of which are gold-plated. "The identification of Wadi Rum with Iram and the tribe of ʿĀd, mentioned in the Quran, has been proposed by scholars who have translated Thamudic and Nabataean inscriptions referring to both the place Iram and the tribes of ʿĀd and Thamud by name." Instead, archaeological, religious and linguistic evidence confirms that they are a North Arabian tribe. Although the Nabataeans were initially embedded in the Aramean culture, theories that they have Aramean roots are rejected by modern scholars. They became familiar with their area as the seasons passed, and they struggled to survive during bad years when seasonal rainfall decreased. The Nabataeans were one of the many nomadic Bedouin tribes who roamed the Arabian Desert and took their herds to where they could find grassland and water. It has also been identified as a tribe, possibly the tribe of ʿĀd, with the pillars referring to tent pillars.
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As an area, it has been identified with the biblical region known as Aram. Those identifying it as a city have made various suggestions as to where or what city it was, ranging from Alexandria or Damascus to a city which actually moved or a city called Ubar. Some see this as a geographic location, either a city or an area, others as the name of a tribe. There are several explanations for the reference to "Iram – who had lofty pillars". 6: Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ‘Aad –Ĩ: The likes of whom had never been created in the landsĩ: And Thamud, who carved out the rocks in the valley?ġ1: whom oppressed within the landsġ2: And increased therein the corruption.ġ3: So your Lord poured upon them a scourge of punishment.