• Ubar may refer to: Ab Bar A legendary land in southern Arabia, often referred to as Atlantis of the Sands, which is considered by some to be the same as:...
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    legendary lost place in the southern deserts of the Arabian Peninsula, known as Ūbār/Awbār (أوبار) or Wabār/Wubār (وبار) in Arabic, thought to have been destroyed...
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  • Alexandria or Damascus to a city which actually moved or a city called Ubar. Ubar, according to ancient and medieval authors, was a land instead of a city...
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    Wabar craters (redirect from Ubar craters)
    John Philby, who discovered them while searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia's Rub' al Khali ("Empty Quarter") in 1932. The vast desert wasteland...
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    lost city of Ubar or Iram. This is not always accepted by scholars. There is a probability that it might have been in the land of Ubar which was a historical...
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  • State in 1978. Zarins joined an expedition in search of the lost city of Ubar which started in 1992. The team was composed of NASA scientists Ronald Blom...
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    impassable stretches of land, until about 300 AD. It has been suggested that Ubar or Iram, a lost city, region or people, depended on such trade. The archaeological...
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    city called Ubar. In a 1996 interview on the subject, he said: If you look at the classical texts and the Arab historical sources, Ubar refers to a region...
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    nearly identical to a myth that refers to Ubar in which the gods, having grown angry with the residents of Ubar, struck it down in a great storm in which...
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  • the quicksand in Ubar and being driven mad when Drake fails. He tries to murder Drake on top of a collapsing cliff overlooking Ubar, but is briefly distracted...
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    Mitanni, Phoenicia and Israel) and the Arabian Peninsula (Magan, Sheba, Ubar). The Near East was first largely unified under the Neo Assyrian Empire,...
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    what at the time was thought to be the discovery of the ancient city of Ubar. Hedges was born in Philadelphia on February 26, 1952, and attended the University...
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    Akkadian sources such as the Epic of Gilgamesh. His father was the king Ubar-Tutu ("Friend of the god Tutu"). Uta-napishtim is the eighth of the antediluvian...
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  • dictionary. Über (German pronunciation: [ˈyːbɐ] , sometimes written uber /ˈuːbər/ in English-language publications) is a German language word meaning "over"...
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    south of the peninsula, such as Sheba/Saba (in modern Yemen), Magan and Ubar (both in modern Oman), although the histories of these states is sketchy...
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    speculation has associated Iram—and thus ʿĀd—with the buried city referred to as Ubar (Wabār), located at Shisur, Oman, because of the pillars found at that site...
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    of the city claimed to be the ancient incense trade route trade capital Ubar in Oman, who claimed that the name may come from the Greek word ὕδρευματα...
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    as the "land of the Iobaritae" a region which legend later referred to as Ubar. The origin of the Midianites has not been established. Because of the Mycenaean...
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  • 254f. notes 17-19 Niddah 44b ubar yerekh imo, Hullin 58a Feldman 253f. who also cites Y.K. Miklishanski in "Mishpat ha-Ubar" in Jubilee Volume in Honor...
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    the Central-Semitic Arabic) were spoken in the kingdoms of Dilmun, Sheba, Ubar, Socotra, and Magan, which in modern terms encompassed part of the eastern...
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  • lav nefesh hu: "it is not a person". The Talmud contains the expression ubar yerech imo—the fetus is as the thigh of its mother,' i.e., the fetus is deemed...
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    Uppinangady or Ubar is a town in the Puttur talk of Dakshina Kannada district in the state of Karnataka, India. It is surrounded by the Kumaradhara River...
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    sunufatarungo iro saro rihtun garutun se iro guðhamun gurtun sih iro suert ana helidos ubar hringa do sie to dero hiltiu ritun I heard tell That warriors met in single...
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    influenced by cities further south in Oman. The Shisr site, recognized as Wubar (Ubar) by UNESCO's "Land of Frankincense" is one such location that could have...
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  • his genius. 445 2 "Lost City of Arabia" October 8, 1996 (1996-10-08) 2312 Ubar is the classic lost city of Arabia. The tale of its splendor and sudden catastrophic...
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  • four expeditions with her husband to locate the lost frankincense city of Ubar in Dhofar. In 1972, she devised a plan to circumnavigate the world along...
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    Garutun se iro guðhamun,   gurtun sih iro suert ana, helidos, ubar hringa,   do sie to dero hiltiu ritun. They prepared their fighting outfits,   girded...
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    the Slavic languages have borrowed the word from a Turkic term for Ubır or Ubar 'witch, vampire, hortdan'. Czech linguist Václav Machek proposes the Slovak...
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    from Alexandria or Damascus to a city which actually moved or a city called Ubar. As an area, it has been identified with the biblical region known as Aram...
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  • having been commissioned by Queen Elizabeth I to find the lost city of Ubar. Clues to its location lie in Crusader crypts in a French chateau and a Syrian...
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