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	Iram of the Pillars - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ubar was mentioned in ancient records and was spoken of in folk tales as a trading center of the Rub al Khali Desert in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula.
		One, on the eastern edge of Oman in the Dhofar province, proved to be a city known as Ubar, which is usually identified with Iram.
		Over the centuries the city, now called Ubar, had prospered and grown larger, until one day half of the city collapsed into a giant sinkhole and was abandoned to the sands by its citizens.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ubar (893 words)

	AlShindagah Online
		In Ubar’s time the trade in frankincense was as important to the world as the trade in silk from the Orient would be a millennium later.
		According to Zarins, the name ‘Ubar’, as mentioned in the classical texts and Arab historical sources, was used to refer to a region and a group of people.
		The city of Ubar was one of three or four major centres of a kingdom in the area, which spread as far as parts of modern-day Yemen.
	www.alshindagah.com /septoct2004/ubar.html (1824 words)

	Ubar - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Ubar, a lost city, was mentioned in ancient records and was spoken of in folk tales as a trading center of the Rub al Khali Desert in the southern part of the Arabian peninsula.
		An earthquake apparently broke open the water cavern and thus the water source was lost, after which the city fell into oblivion.
		You can find it there under the keyword Ubar (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubar)The list of previous authors is available here: version history (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ubarandaction=history).
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Ubar (362 words)

	How Remote Sensing Helped Find a Lost City, Data Dubai
		References to Ubar in the Koran, the Arabian Nights, and countless Bedouin tales told around desert campfires have captivated the imaginations of explorers and archaeologists.
		Ubar was lost for thousands of years, perhaps buried under the shifting sands of the desert of the Arabian peninsula.
		One startling result of the excavation was that it appears that Ubar did meet with a catastrophic end, as many of the legends describe.
	www.datadubai.com /rubart3.htm (1090 words)

	Lost City of Ubar, Oman
		The lost city of Ubar is an ancient city on the Arabian Peninsula in southern Oman.
		Ubar is believed to have been populated from about 2800 B.C. to about 300 A.D. and to have been at one time an important trading outpost.
		The fortress of the lost city of Ubar is near the wadi close to the center of the image.
	www.astrographics.com /GalleryPrintsIndex/GP4512.html (252 words)

	Lost City of Ubar, Southern Oman, Arabian Peninsula
		Archeologists believe Ubar existed from about 2800 B.C. to about 300 A.D. and was a remote desert outpost where caravans were assembled for the transport of frankincense across the desert.
		A major wadi, or dry stream bed, runs across the middle of the image and is shown largely in white due to strong radar scattering in all channels displayed (L and C HH, L-HV).
		The actual site of the fortress of the lost city of Ubar, currently under excavation, is near the Wadi close to the center of the image.
	www.solarviews.com /cap/earth/ubar.htm (372 words)

	Ubar Description
		The discovery of Ubar (Iram) made world headlines in 1992, “Fabled Lost Arabian city found”, “Arabian city of Legend found”, “The Atlantis of the Sands, Ubar”.
		Whether it is Ubar or not is irrelevant from that perspective as it was clearly a key site along the incense caravan route at the edge of the great Empty Quarter.
		Ubar existed from about 2800 B.C. to about 300 A.D. as a remote desert outpost where caravans were assembled for the transport of the very valuable frankincense across the desert.
	home.hetnet.nl /~lilian_jan_schreurs/oman/Ubar.htm (1387 words)

	Space Today Online -- Solar System Planet Earth -- Ubar
		The adventurer T.E. Lawrence once described Ubar as the "Atlantis of the sands." Frankincense was an important commodity in the ancient world before the rise of Christianity when Ubar may have been the main shipping center of Ad.
		Ad society lasted from 3000 B.C. to the 1st century A.D. In the end, it was victimized by politics, economics and climate after a drop in demand for the frankincense fragrance as Christianity preached burying bodies instead of burning them.
		The adventurer T.E. Lawrence once described Ubar as "the Atlantis of the sands." The city was a starting point for worldwide shipments -- to markets as far away as China and Rome -- of frankincense, an important commodity in the ancient world before the rise of Christianity.
	www.spacetoday.org /SolSys/Earth/Ubar.html (1416 words)

	Literatureview.com :: The Road To Ubar
		However, at the start of this wonderfully readable book, the existence of this once thriving city is merely speculation based on references in the Arabian Nights and the diaries of the English explorers who ventured into the sands of the Rub’ al-Khali in search of it.
		The legend of Ubar held that this once powerful city was literally swallowed up by the desert.
		The Road To Ubar is the distillation of a decade’s labor looking for a place that had been up until Clapp and company unearth it a myth.
	www.literatureview.com /moxie/travel/roadtoubar.shtml (511 words)

	Ubar, The Lost City (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		...The lost city of Ubar, called "the Atlantis of the Sands" by Lawrence of Arabia, has been found in remote southern Oman using pictures taken from space shuttle Challenger, explorers said Tuesday.
		The city is referred to as Iram, the "city of towers" in the Holy Quran, Surah Al-Fajr.
		According to legend, Ubar was destroyed during a disaster about C.E. 100 and was buried by sand.
	www.islam101.com /archeology/ubar.html (392 words)

	Port Kar in Chaos
		In the beginning Port Kar was ruled by five Ubars and the council of captains.
		Ubars will build alliances to gain, keep, and even over throw power (Picture "Gangs of New York" and the politics using the gangs to help them keep power.
		Ubars must make alliances with the groups in their vector in order to survive.
	www.angelfire.com /scary/portkar (1895 words)

	SIR-C satellite image of Ubar, Oman
		This pair of images space shows a portion of the southern Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the country of Oman.
		On the left is a SIR-C radar image of the region around the site of the fabled Lost City of Ubar, discovered in 1992 with the aid of remote sensing data.
		The actual site of the fortress of the Lost City of Ubar is too small to show in either image.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/mjff/ubar.htm (267 words)

	City of Ubar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Archaeologists have found no evidence linking this site to the fabled city of Ubar, or Wabar, known as the "Atlantis of the Sands" because it was thought to be lost in the desert after its people were destroyed by God.
		Ubar is the name given to the city which is known as "Iram" in the Quran, the city of the people of Ad to whom the prophet Hud was sent.
		The archaeological site is dated to a time which would make it contemporary to when the people of Ad would have lived according to the evidence provided by Quran exegetes.
	www.usna.edu /Users/humss/bwheeler/ubar.html (136 words)

	Catalog Page for PIA01302
		On the left is a radar image of the region around the site of the fabled Lost City of Ubar, discovered in 1992 with the aid of remote sensing data.
		Ubar existed from about 2800 BC to about 300 AD.
		The actual site of the fortress of the Lost City of Ubar, currently under excavation, is too small to show in either image.
	photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov /catalog/PIA01302 (364 words)

	IslamiCity.com - A Sine On the Road to Makkah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		At the beginning of 1990, there appeared press-releases in the well-known newspapers of the world declaring “Fabled Lost Arabian city found”, “Arabian city of Legend found”, “The Atlantis of the Sands, Ubar”.
		What rendered this archaeological find more intriguing was the fact that this city was also referred to in the Qur’an.
		Ubar, could only be seen from space before excavations were made.
	www.islamicity.com /Science/Ubar (236 words)

	PerishedNations.com
		The remains of the city of Ubar, where 'Ad lived, were found somewhere near to the coasts of Oman.
		3 This was the city known as "Ubar" by the bedouins.
		Thus, this lost city was described as "the Atlantis of the Sands, Ubar".
	www.perishednations.com /adandubar.html (1692 words)

	The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands
		I had heard about the discovery of the location of Ubar in Oman, and I was very interested to learn more from this book about the story behind the find.
		Ubar is believed to be the city of "Iram" of the people of Ad, the nation to whom Allah sent Prophet Hud (peace be upon him), according to the Holy Quran.
		Having read various eye-witness accounts of roads leading to Ubar in the Omani desert, he set out in a detective-like search to see if the mysterious missing city truly existed and if it could be found.
	members.tripod.com /oum_abdulaziz/clapp.htm (281 words)

	The People of ‘Ad and Ubar, the Atlantis of the Sands (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		(9) This was the city known as “Ubar” by the bedouins.
		But as we have noted before, Ubar, which has been identified with the city of Iram, and any other place which is likely to have been the residence of ‘Ad, is totally covered with desert today.
		The French magazine, Ça M’Interesse states the same as follows “Ubar was buried under a sand of 12 meters thickness as a result of a storm”(16)
	www.islamicity.com /Science/quranandscience/destruction/GeneratedFiles/ThePeopleof145AdandUbartheAtlantisoftheSands.htm (4156 words)

	The Incense Road: Ubar
		The legendary city of Ubar was once a center of trade and wealth.
		This prophet foretold that the city and the entire civilization of Ubar would be destroyed by God, as punishment for their wicked living.
		The king ignored him and a short while later the city disappeared from historical record and was buried under the sands of the Empty Quarter of Arabia.
	nabataea.net /ubar.html (294 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Road to Ubar: Finding the Atlantis of the Sands: Books: Nicholas Clapp (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The lost city of Ubar, the most fabled of ancient Arabia, thriving centre of the frankincense trade, has fascinated explorers and archaeologists for hundreds of years, and eluded them all.
		This city was Ubar, the "many-columned city." In punishment for its idolatry and wickedness, Allah destroyed Ubar.
		The place they identified in the end as the most likely candidate for 'Ubar' is the ruin of a town that disappeared in a sinkhole.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Road-Ubar-Finding-Atlantis-Sands/dp/0285635441 (656 words)

	Oman - Sumhurran and The Lost City of Ubar
		Ubar, in 1992 while excavating Shisr, 140klms northeast of Salalah and noted for its fresh water wells, archaeologists found what is believed by many to be the lost city of Ubar, known as Irem in the Qu'ran, whose riches, where legendary.
		The discovery of its exact whereabouts was brought about by infrared satellite photographs taken of the Rub Al Khali Sands, the images recorded miles of ancient camel tracks which abruptly disappeared under a vast sand, rocked ridge.
		Qu'ran relates how the citizens of Irem were punished for their excessive lifestyles and how the city which was built over a huge limestone cavern at some point collapsed and was buried forever.
	www.offroademirates.com /uk/oman/uk_ubar.html (239 words)

	JPL hosts screening of 'The Road to Ubar' (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The discovery of the "lost city" of Ubar in ancient Arabia will be explored in the film, "The Road to Ubar," to be shown at 7 p.m.
		Ubar, an ancient center for the frankincense trade in Arabia thousands of years ago, was located in the early 1990's after extensive studies of the region using historical research, remote-sensing technology and traditional archaeological techniques.
		Ancient caravan routes were discovered in satellite images visible from the tracks left by thousands of camels that had traversed the region long ago.
	www.jpl.nasa.gov /releases/96/vkubar.html (250 words)

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		All who come in peace are welcome and will be received by the Ubar, Halburt of Thentis and treated with respect and honor.
		Ubar of the Inn - Halburt of Thentis
		Ubar of the Skies Inn is my Home..I am the Ubar..and these are my rules, if you accept them, you are welcome to visit, otherwise move on....
	www.angelfire.com /realm/counterurth (763 words)

	ThothWeb - Ubar
		The legend goes like this: Ubar, a rich and fabulous trading center of ancient Arabia rose out of the desert and then mysteriously vanished back into the sands.
		Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia) called it the "Atlantis of the sands," but he died before he could lead his own expedition to find it.
		The discovery of these types of artifacts from far away places indicated that this was indeed a major center for trade and likely the fabled Ubar.
	www.thothweb.com /content-18.html (1183 words)

	HoB.Quotes - ChatArea.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The military monarch is a Ubar, a man, or a Ubara, a woman.
		According to the Warrior Caste Codes, the Ubar is supposed to relinquish his position once the war or crisis has ended.
		First, the Warriors that supported the Ubar may choose to withdraw their support of the Ubar and might even kill him.
	www.chatarea.com /HoB.m1343376 (303 words)

	Kaissa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		One of the most common openings is for Yellow to move their Ubar's Spearman to Ubar Five and then for Red to respond identically.
		Red: Ubar's Spearman to Ubar Five (This is known as the Center Defense, generally a poor defense against a Master Player)
		Red: Ubar's Tarnsman Spearman to Ubar's Tarnsman Four (This is a break from the normal Center Defense)
	members.aol.com /UbarLuther/Scroll20.html (2773 words)

	Ubar
		On the way there would be a series of delays, dead-ends and difficulties, ranging from antenna problems with NASA radar to sandstorms in the Arabian desert to a little complication known as the Persian Gulf war.
		After ruling out several possible sites for Ubar, the team found themselves back at the ruined fort that marked a small oasis known as Shisur; the fort had been described by earlier explorers like Thomas and Thesiger, but was written off as being no more than a few hundred years old.
		The destruction of Ubar, Clapp argues, probably occurred after some six centuries of prosperity in the incense trade.
	www.scaruffi.com /travel/ubar.html (797 words)

	Atlantis of the Sands, Data Dubai
		Thomas had heard about Ubar on previous journeys through central Arabia, but no one could say where it was.
		While it is certain that people of the Dhofar area grew rich trading these commodities, it would appear that the city of Ubar was an Arabian Nights fantasy.
		Deserts: The desert is a land of extremes: extreme heat and...
	www.datadubai.com /rubart1.htm (498 words)

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