Iram of Pillars: Ancient Lost City of Aliens

Source: Operation Disclosure Official | By Theodore Colon, Contributing Writer

Submitted on June 27, 2023

IRAM OF PILLARS – Ancient Lost City Of Aliens

Legendary lost city in the southern deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, thought to have been destroyed by earthquake’s, lighting, sand storm by the earth opening up and swallowing it as a punishment by God for worshipping false idols. Just like Göbekli Tepe; built with Anunnaki advanced knowledge and buried by the God’s and lost in time?

The Legend of “The Lost City of Iram

It was a lush oasis. Gardens of date trees fed with springs decorated the city of towering pillars that lined its borders. It was “adorned with beautiful temples and palaces,” and this city was the richest in the world. Frankincense as valuable as gold was abundant, and it brought great wealth to the area. Additionally, treasures and troves of red silver ore were kept locked away. This was the Atlantis of the Sands.

It was perfectly located in southern Arabia between India and the Mediterranean directly on the trade route. Merchants used that route to transport fine spices and highly valuable resins and essential oils for sale. The climate was different at that time; the area was lusher and was referred to as “Arabia Felix” meaning “happy Arabia” or “fortunate Arabia.”

Arabia Felix was considered a fortunate area because “the people had learned to farm the Boswellia trees that produce frankincense”. Additionally, it had an abundance of water, dates, and red silver ore. The Atlantis of the Sands may have been a popular trading and stopping point, and thus, weary travelers could water their camels and stock up on goods and commodities. It has never been conclusively discovered, but this grand place may have been inspired by a real city that once existed. This theory has led to much research and many expeditions by explorers and archeologists who have attempted to find Ubar.

In modern times the mystery of the lost city of Atlantis; has generated a number of books, films, articles and have a loyal following of believers. On a smaller scale, Arabia has its own legend of a lost city, the so-called “Atlantis of the Sands”, which has been the source of debate among historians, archaeologists and explorers, and a degree of controversy that continues to this day.

The Arabian Peninsula has been known as a land of many mysteries for thousands of years. 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. 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. 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.

Viewing events there from the perspective of the pre-Islamic prophet Hud, who warned the city of its folly in worshiping false idols. Like Sodom and Gomorrah, the city was punished and all who did not give up the false worship were destroyed along with the city.

In 1930, the explorer Bertram Thomas had been approaching the southern edge of the Rub’ al Khali (“The Empty Quarter”). It was Thomas’ ambition to be the first European to cross the great sands but, as he began his camel journey, he was told by his Bedouin escorts of a lost city whose wicked people had attracted the wrath of God and had been destroyed. He found no trace of a lost city in the sands, but Thomas later related the story to T. E. Lawrence (“Lawrence of Arabia”), who regarded Ubar as the “Atlantis of the Sands”. Thomas marked on a map the location of a track that was said to lead to the legendary lost city of Ubar and, although he intended to return to follow it, he was never able to.

In the biography of T. E. Lawrence (a.k.a. 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 story of a lost city in the sands became an explorer’s fascination; a few wrote accounts of their travels that perpetuated the tale. T. E. Lawrence planned to search for the location of a lost city somewhere in the sands, telling a fellow traveller that he was convinced that the remains of an Arab civilization were to be found in the desert. He had been told that the Bedu had seen the ruins of the castles of King Ad in the region of Wabar. In his view the best way to explore the sands was by airship, but his plans never came to fruition.

In March 1948, a geological party from Petroleum Development (Oman and Dhofar) Ltd, an associate company of the Iraq Petroleum Company, carried out a camel-borne survey of Dhofar province. Like Thesiger, the party approached Shisr from the south, along the Wadi Ghudun. Their first sight of Ash Shisur was a white cliff in the distance. As they drew closer, they could see that the cliff was in fact the wall of a ruined fort built above a large quarry-like cave, the entrance of which was obscured by a sand dune.

The fort had been built from the same white rock as the overhanging cliff, giving the impression of a single structure. One of the geologists noted: “There are no houses, tents or people here: only the tumble-down ruin of this pre-Islamic fort.” The geologists, without the benefit of modern satellite analysis or archaeological equipment, were unimpressed by the ruin. Shisur, like Ma Shedid a few days before, they had difficult time getting water and their escorts spent the best part of their 3-day stay trying to extract water for their camels from the well.

In 1953, oil man and philanthropist Wendell Phillips set out to discover Thomas’ track but was unable to follow it because of the heavy sands which made further travel by motor transport impossible.

Some 35 years later.

Nicholas Clapp’s search for Ubar began after he read Thomas’ book Arabia Felix. Clapp had just returned from Oman, having helped to stock an oryx sanctuary on the Jiddat al Harassis, and was inspired by Thomas’ references to the lost city of Ubar. He began his search for Ubar in the library of the University of California in Los Angeles, and found a 2nd-century AD map by the Alexandrian geographer Claudius Ptolemy which showed a place called “Omanum Emporium”. He speculated that this might be the location of Ubar, situated on the incense route between Dhofar and the Mediterranean region. Aware that Mayan remains had been identified from aerial photographs, Clapp contacted NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and obtained satellite images of Dhofar. These helped to identify ancient camel tracks hidden beneath the shifting sands.

After Clapp’s team had visited a number of possible sites for Ubar, they found themselves drawn back to the crumbling ruin at Shisr. Although the fort had been written off as being no more than a few hundred years old by the earlier explorers, Clapp’s team began to speculate that the fort had been rebuilt in the 1500s on the remains of a far more ancient site.

Nicholas Clapp and his team reported uncovering what they described as a large octagonal fortress dating back some 2,000 years beneath the crumbling fort, and described a vast limestone table that lay beneath the main gate which had collapsed into a massive sinkhole around the well. This, some concluded, was the fabled city of Ubar, which was also known as Iram, or at least a city in the region of Ubar, once an important trading post on the incense route from Dhofar to the Mediterranean region.

By 2007, following further research and excavation, their findings could be summarized as;

• A long period of widespread trade through the area of Shisr was indicated by artifacts from Persia, Rome, and Greece being found on the site. More recent work in Oman and Yemen indicated that this fortress was the easternmost remains of a series of desert caravanserais that supported incense trade.

For the related lost place mentioned in the Quran, Iram of the Pillars.

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