![]() The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. Therefore, this city is the city of Ad nation, Iram, which is mentioned in the Quran.” “What distinguishes this city from other archeological findings is its tall pillars. Juris Zarins, who is a member of the excavation team, states the following For, tall pillars mentioned in the Quran were found during the excavations.ĭr. From the first moment of uncovering of the ruins, it was seen that this collapsed city had belonged to the Ad nation and the pillars were the pillars of Iram, mentioned in the Qur’an. The actual evidence proving that this old city is the city of Ad which is mentioned in the Quran is the remains of the city. Thus, this city was named as “Ubar, the Atlantis of the Sands”. The remaining of an old city started to come into light from the sand during excavations. So, the place of the legendary city which had been the subject of oral stories and narrated by Bedouins was discovered. The ending point of these ways was a large area that was a city once upon a time. In the photographs taken by NASA, some traces of a road which were impossible to see with naked eye but visible by a complete aerial view came in sight.īoth the ways shown in the old map and the satellite photographs supported one another. The map showed the place of an ancient city and the drawing of ways that led to this city. After a short research, he found a map that had been drawn by Egyptian-Greek geographer Batlamyus in 200 AD. Thereupon, he applied to NASA and demanded this area to be photographed via satellite.Īfter that, he started to examine the old scripts and maps that exist in Huntington library of California. At first, he found the traces of the pathway whose existence was told him by the Bedouins. Nicholas Clapp who examined the book of Bertram Thomas, made two attempts in order to prove the existence of Ubar that Thomas reported. During the trip, he met with Bedouins who were living in the desert and they showed him an old pathway and told him that this pathway belonged to a very old city called Ubar. The English researcher Bertram Thomas made a research trip in the region of the city of Ubar where there is the remaining of the city, a place which is near the coast of Oman. Arabia Felix is the name given to the region of the south Arabian Peninsula of Romans and covering the parts of Yemen and Oman nowadays. While researching for the Arabian history, the Arabic historian and documentary producer, Nicholas Clapp came across with a book called “Arabia Felix” which was written by Bertram Thomas, an English researcher in 1932. Nicholas Clapp is the amateur archeologist who founded the city that is mentioned in the Quran. Up to that time, many people who thought the tribe of Ad mentioned in the Quran to be a legend and never to be founded were amazed upon this new finding. What makes this interesting archeological finding more important is that its name exists in the Quran. Have you not considered how your Lord dealt with ‘Aad Iram – who had lofty pillars, The likes of whom had never been created in the land? } (Quran 89: 6-9 )Īt the beginning of 1990s, notable newspapers gave the news of a very important archeological finding with the following headlines “The Magnificent Arab City Has Been Founded”, “The Legendary Arab City Has Been Founded”, “Ubar, Atlantis of the Sands”. ![]() Now, let us look at the miraculous news which proves the prophethood of that person and that the decree which he has is the book of God.
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