Thug4Life
28-04-05, 05:05 PM
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Yes It was said that "the lost civilization that once controlled the trade in frankincense"....deep down in the southern part of Oman..discoveries led to the idea of Ubar been there....IRAM(IRUM) Thaat el emaad(the many-columned city)..
Its known specialy by us (Muslims) what have happend to Ubar..........
" the desert swallowed up Ubar. Quite literally, it sank without trace -becoming the fabled "Atlantis of the Sands.
http://www.guidedones.com/images/issues/ubar/ubar103.jpg
It may look like a weird and colorful painting to a layman but to the scientists this image taken from space is further confirmation of the site of the lost city of Ubar. It is a radar image of the region around the site of the lost city in southern Oman, originally discovered from space in 1992. This image was acquired on orbit 65 of the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994 by imaging radar and covers an area about 50 by 100 kilometres of the Arabian Peninsula.The prominent magenta colored area is a region of large sand dunes. The prominent green areas are rough lime stone rocks that form a rocky desert floor. A major wadi, or dry streambed, runs across the middle and is shown largely in white. The fortress of the lost city of Ubar is near the wadi, close to the center of the image. The fortress is too small to be detected but tracks leading to the site appear as prominent reddish streaks. These tracks have been used in modern times but field investigation showed many were in use in ancient times as well.
According to legend Ubar was a magnificent kingdom, rich beyond measure -the original city of "streets paved with gold." Indeed it is described in the Holy Quran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the whole land."
It was here, archaeologists believe, that great caravans were assembled for the transport of frankincense across the desert. But it's great wealth built on the frankincense trade -also proved its downfall.
Corrupted by riches, Ubar was said to have become a hotbed of wickedness - and like Sodom and Gomorrah -suffered the wrath of God. Historians chronicle Ubar's destruction somewhere between the first and fourth centuries AD.
Thus Ubar was, quite literally, swallowed up by the desert - passing into legend as the Atlantis of the Sands and becoming the most fabled city in all Arabia. Over the centuries which followed, explorers and historians searched unsuccessfully for the lost city and doubts grew whether Ubar had ever really existed.
Well who could ever imagined that the Atlantis of Arabia, the buried city of Ubar, would be unearthed from Outer Space!
The Holy Qurân's description of Ubar as city of lofty pillars" - was mirrored in the towers of the discovered city. And these towers guarded a water source that more than anything else in the surrounding 50,000 square miles qualified as the "great well of Wabar."
For all its isolation here was a place where, as in legend, people prospered and lived well, cooking and dining on the ware of classical civilizations.
Last, the legend of Ubar surfaced when the city sank into the sands. And this city collapsed into an underground cavern. Of all the sites in all the ancient world, Ubar came to a unique and peculiar end -an end identical in myth and now, it transpired, in reality.
Many thousands years people tried their best to haunt down this city and by modern technology I guess with some clicks here and there..they found the city!! amazing haa???
sources:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/zarins/index.html
http://www.islam101.com/archeology/ubar.html
http://www.guidedones.com/issues/reports/ubar10.htm
I really hope once again that You enjoyed the Insight of What is in Beautiful Oman ;)
Yes It was said that "the lost civilization that once controlled the trade in frankincense"....deep down in the southern part of Oman..discoveries led to the idea of Ubar been there....IRAM(IRUM) Thaat el emaad(the many-columned city)..
Its known specialy by us (Muslims) what have happend to Ubar..........
" the desert swallowed up Ubar. Quite literally, it sank without trace -becoming the fabled "Atlantis of the Sands.
http://www.guidedones.com/images/issues/ubar/ubar103.jpg
It may look like a weird and colorful painting to a layman but to the scientists this image taken from space is further confirmation of the site of the lost city of Ubar. It is a radar image of the region around the site of the lost city in southern Oman, originally discovered from space in 1992. This image was acquired on orbit 65 of the NASA Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1994 by imaging radar and covers an area about 50 by 100 kilometres of the Arabian Peninsula.The prominent magenta colored area is a region of large sand dunes. The prominent green areas are rough lime stone rocks that form a rocky desert floor. A major wadi, or dry streambed, runs across the middle and is shown largely in white. The fortress of the lost city of Ubar is near the wadi, close to the center of the image. The fortress is too small to be detected but tracks leading to the site appear as prominent reddish streaks. These tracks have been used in modern times but field investigation showed many were in use in ancient times as well.
According to legend Ubar was a magnificent kingdom, rich beyond measure -the original city of "streets paved with gold." Indeed it is described in the Holy Quran as "the many-columned city whose like has not been built in the whole land."
It was here, archaeologists believe, that great caravans were assembled for the transport of frankincense across the desert. But it's great wealth built on the frankincense trade -also proved its downfall.
Corrupted by riches, Ubar was said to have become a hotbed of wickedness - and like Sodom and Gomorrah -suffered the wrath of God. Historians chronicle Ubar's destruction somewhere between the first and fourth centuries AD.
Thus Ubar was, quite literally, swallowed up by the desert - passing into legend as the Atlantis of the Sands and becoming the most fabled city in all Arabia. Over the centuries which followed, explorers and historians searched unsuccessfully for the lost city and doubts grew whether Ubar had ever really existed.
Well who could ever imagined that the Atlantis of Arabia, the buried city of Ubar, would be unearthed from Outer Space!
The Holy Qurân's description of Ubar as city of lofty pillars" - was mirrored in the towers of the discovered city. And these towers guarded a water source that more than anything else in the surrounding 50,000 square miles qualified as the "great well of Wabar."
For all its isolation here was a place where, as in legend, people prospered and lived well, cooking and dining on the ware of classical civilizations.
Last, the legend of Ubar surfaced when the city sank into the sands. And this city collapsed into an underground cavern. Of all the sites in all the ancient world, Ubar came to a unique and peculiar end -an end identical in myth and now, it transpired, in reality.
Many thousands years people tried their best to haunt down this city and by modern technology I guess with some clicks here and there..they found the city!! amazing haa???
sources:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ubar/zarins/index.html
http://www.islam101.com/archeology/ubar.html
http://www.guidedones.com/issues/reports/ubar10.htm
I really hope once again that You enjoyed the Insight of What is in Beautiful Oman ;)