In " The Call of Cthulhu" (1926) it is the supposed base of the Cthulhu Cult. Lovecraft places it somewhere near " The Nameless City" in his stories (1921). Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam mentions Iram: "Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose," begins stanza V.Lovecraft's "Nameless City" and the Cthulhu Mythos in general. League of Legends Icathia (a location in Runeterra) seems to be based on the lost city as its lore seems to reference H.P.Fallout 4 mentions Ubar and the Rub' al Khali by way of character Lorenzo Cabot.Irem is featured as a port of call in Sunless Sea, having been transported underground to a subterranean ocean.Illwinter Game Design's Dominions 5 Iram is featured as the playable nation Ubar, a precursor to Na'Ba, which represents the Nabataeans.explores Iram of the Pillars in the city of Ubar.Climatic changes led to desiccation of the area, and sea transport became a more reliable way of transporting goods.
Also, it became difficult to find local labour to collect the resin. The decline of the region was probably due to a reduction in the frankincense trade caused by the conversion of the Roman Empire to Christianity, which did not require incense in the same quantities for its rituals.
Rather than being a city, interpretation of the evidence suggested that "Ubar" was more likely to have been a region-the “Land of the Iobaritae” identified by Ptolemy. 
Much of the fortress had collapsed into a sinkhole that hosted the well, perhaps undermined by ground water being taken to irrigate the surrounding oasis.
As far as the legend of Ubar was concerned, there was no evidence that the city had perished in a sandstorm. Īrchaeologist Juris Zarins discussed Ubar in a 1996 NOVA interview: īy 2007, following further research and excavation, a study authored in part by Zarins could be summarised as follows: The term Atlantis of the Sands had originally been coined by T. In 1992 Ranulph Fiennes wrote a book called Atlantis of the Sands about the expedition. In November 1991, the remains of a settlement were discovered in southern Oman which was hypothesized to be the legendary lost city claimed to have been destroyed by God. The oldest mention of the city of Iram was found in the Ebla tablets, dated from c. Iram became widely known to Western literature with the translation of the story "The City of Many-Columned Iram and Abdullah Son of Abi Kilabah" in The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. He claims that coins made of this gold remain buried and that Iram is the name of a tribe of ʿĀd and not a location. The mystic ad-Dabbagh has suggested that these verses refer to ʿĀd's tents with pillars, both of which are gold-plated. "The identification of Wadi Rum with Iram and the tribe of ʿĀd, mentioned in the Quran, has been proposed by scholars who have translated Thamudic and Nabataean inscriptions referring to both the place Iram and the tribes of ʿĀd and Thamud by name." Instead, archaeological, religious and linguistic evidence confirms that they are a North Arabian tribe. Although the Nabataeans were initially embedded in the Aramean culture, theories that they have Aramean roots are rejected by modern scholars. They became familiar with their area as the seasons passed, and they struggled to survive during bad years when seasonal rainfall decreased. The Nabataeans were one of the many nomadic Bedouin tribes who roamed the Arabian Desert and took their herds to where they could find grassland and water. It has also been identified as a tribe, possibly the tribe of ʿĀd, with the pillars referring to tent pillars. As an area, it has been identified with the biblical region known as Aram. Those identifying it as a city have made various suggestions as to where or what city it was, ranging from Alexandria or Damascus to a city which actually moved or a city called Ubar. Some see this as a geographic location, either a city or an area, others as the name of a tribe. There are several explanations for the reference to "Iram – who had lofty pillars". The Quran mentions Iram in connection with ‘imad (pillars): Surah al-Fajr (6-14) Iram of the Pillars (Arabic: إرَم ذَات ٱلْعِمَاد, an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles), also called " Irum", " Irem", " Erum", " Ubar", or the " City of the pillars", is considered a lost city, region or tribe mentioned in the Quran.
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