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🇴🇲 Oman · Buried city

Iram of the Pillars – Ubar, Atlantis of the Sands (Hypothetical)

Iron Age to Late Antique (1000 BCE – 500 CE) · Arabian frankincense / South Arabian / Parthian

Qur'anic Iram dhat al-'Imad — 1992 SAR identified Shisr 8-tower limestone fortress collapsed into sinkhole c. 500 CE (contested as Ubar).