Lost City of Ubar (Iram)

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In November 1992, archeological surveys found the old city of Ubar, which existed over 2,000 year before Christian Era. The ruins are on the edge of the Empty Quarter of the Arabian Peninsula in the Dhofar region of Southern Oman. They surround the water well now known as Ash Shisar. That is near the Qara Mountains, where grew - and still grow - the trees that were a major source of the aromatic resin for the frankincense so prized in ancient times as a symbol of wealth and holiness and a substance used in embalming and fumigation. Myrrh is also a gum resin used in making incense.

In Holy Qur’an, Iram, possibly Ubar, is described as the “many columned city, whose like has not been built in the entire land”. But it came to have a reputation and fate not unlike that of Sodom and Gomorrah in the Bible. Condemned for their sinful and unrepentant lives, Holy Qur’an says that the people in Iram were destroyed by Allah (swt).

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