Atlantis of the Sands

讀者文摘，1996.2，頁60-4：{古城出土記}



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A satellite photograph of southern Arabia showing suspected sites of a lost city.

Atlantis of the Sands is the fictional name of a legendary lost city in the southern Arabian sands, claimed to have been destroyed by a natural disaster or as a punishment by God. The search for it was popularised by the 1992 book Atlantis of the Sands – The Search for the Lost City of Ubar by Ranulph Fiennes.^[1] Various names have been given to this city, the most common being Ubar, Wabar and Iram.

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• 1Introduction
• 2Early explorers in Dhofar
• 3Theories about the location of a lost city of the sands
  • 3.1Dhofar
  • 3.2Rub al-Khali
  • 3.3Shisr
  • 3.4Omanum Emporium
  • 3.5Various
• 4The Shisr discoveries
• 5Critical reception
• 6See also
• 7References
• 8External links