No. 215
Iram of the Pillars (Ubar)
Travel there with Lyra- Where
- Southern Arabia
- Type
- Legend
- First told
- The Quran and Arabian tales
- Behind it
- A site at Shisr, Oman was proposed as Ubar in 1992; it is still debated.
- The truth
- No lost city has ever been found.
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Background
Iram of the Pillars (Arabic: إرَم ذَات ٱلْعِمَاد, romanized: Iram dhāt al-ʿimād; an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles), also called "Irum", "Irem", "Erum", or the "City of the pillars", is a lost city mentioned in the Quran.
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