One of them was Bertram Thomas (1892-1950). Several explorers have tried to determine the lost city's true location. This covers most of the southern third of the Arabian Peninsula, including most of Saudi Arabia and areas of Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Yemen. According to most legends and myths, the Atlantis of the Sands is located somewhere in the Rub' al Khali desert, also known as the Empty-quarter. Over the years, various names have been given to this lost city, the most common being Ubar, Wabar, and Iram of the Pillars. "Is the city of Ubar identical to Iram of the Pillars or is the legendary lost city still buried beneath the sand?" Still, many feel this intriguing question remains unanswered: They found shards of pottery and other evidence of the trade routes, but nothing to show they had definitively found the city." The team made a brief, preliminary expedition to Oman last summer, searching about 35 sites. Derivative work, credit: Shaibalahmar - Public DomainĪrmed with this information, they enlisted archeologist Juris Zarins of Southwest Missouri State University and British explorer Sir Ranulf Fiennes, who had served with the British military in the deserts of Oman and fought with the sultan's forces. Satellite photograph of South Arabia showing hypothetical locations of lost cities. Junctions, where the trade routes converged or branched, seemed likely locations for the lost city. Using the imagery, the team picked out the ancient trade routes, which were packed down into hard surfaces by the passage of hundreds of thousands of camels. The radar could "see" through the overlying sand and loose soil to pick out subsurface geological features.
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You can purchase it on either as a paperback or as a download for your Kindle.Clapp persuaded JPL scientists Charles Elachi and Ronald Blom to scan the region with a unique shuttle radar system flown on the Challenger's last successful mission. We encourage interested readers to check out Eric’s book. Chanda currently serves as a volunteer with Aramco Gardening as the only arborist in the country, working extensively with the trees on the Dhahran compound and xeriscaping. During that time they have traveled by car extensively throughout the region, visiting the tombs of Al Faw, Kuwait, Oman and other noteworthy places. Eric wrote his novel during his first Ramadan at Aramco and has now published it three years later.Įric has lived in the Kingdom for three years with his wife Chandra and their two children.
The third part is set in present-day Saudi Arabia and concentrates on two Aramco surveyors who have been seconded to the Saudi Geological Survey Commission. Lawrence of Arabia) to portray him on a mission to locate what he referred to as “the Atlantis of the Sands” before an Ottoman military force can sack and loot the site.
The second part takes advantage of a several-month gap in the biography of T. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, the city was punished and all who did not give up the false worship were destroyed along with the city. The first third of Eric’s novel concentrates on the last days of Iram, viewing events there from the perspective of the pre-Islamic prophet Hud, who warned the city of its folly in worshiping false idols. Long thought to be buried somewhere beneath the sands of Arabia-according to some in the Rub’ al Khali, according to others in any of several other places-the city has returned to life after being lost for centuries in the form of a novel by an Aramcon.Įric Stone III, currently working in the Project Management Office Department in Dhahran, recently published a fascinating historical novel titled “The Lost City of Iram.” Available today on, Eric’s story is divided into three parts, separated in time from one another, each with its own distinctive set of characters, all of whom discover various elements and solve certain mysteries related to the city.
Known to Roman, Nabatean and Sabean traders in ancient times as a city of vast wealth and “towers,” Iram/Ubar is mentioned in The One Thousand and One Nights. At the center of some of its most enduring legends is the fabled city of Iram, also called Ubar, the capital of the Kingdom of Ad. The Arabian Peninsula has been known as a land of many mysteries for thousands of years.
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