Atlantis of the Sands, the Glossary

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1. 90 relations: Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani, Al-Fajr (surah), Al-Shihr, Arabia Felix, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, Arabian Peninsula, Arabic, Aramco World, Archaeological Institute of America, Archaeology (magazine), Archaeopress, Asian Affairs, Atlantis, Atlantis in popular culture, Atlas Obscura, Barri Jones, Bedouin, Bertram Thomas, Brasil (mythical island), Brittia, Caravanserai, Christianity, Dhofar Governorate, Doggerland, E. P. Dutton, Entrepôt, Frankincense, Freya Stark, Hadhramaut, Hendrickson Publishers, Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire, Ibn Ishaq, Ibn Saud, IMDb, Incense, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Iram of the Pillars, Iraq Petroleum Company, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Juris Zarins, Khor Rori, Kumari Kandam, Lemuria, List of lost lands, Los Angeles Times, Lost city, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, Mayda, Minerva (archaeology magazine), Minoan eruption, ... Expand index (40 more) »

2. Arabian mythology
3. Archaeological sites in Oman
4. Iram of the Pillars
5. Mythological populated places
6. One Thousand and One Nights

Abu Muhammad al-Hasan al-Hamdani

Abū Muḥammad al-Ḥasan ibn Aḥmad ibn Yaʿqūb al-Hamdānī (أبو محمد الحسن بن أحمد بن يعقوب الهمداني, 279/280-333/334 A.H.; 947) was an Arab Muslim geographer, chemist, poet, grammarian, historian, and astronomer, from the tribe of Banu Hamdan, western 'Amran, Yemen.

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Al-Fajr (surah)

Al-Fajr (الفجر., "The Dawn", "Daybreak") is the eighty-ninth chapter (sura) of the Quran, with 30 verses (ayat). Atlantis of the Sands and Al-Fajr (surah) are Iram of the Pillars.

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Al-Shihr

Al-Shihr (al-Shiḥr), also known as ash-Shir or simply Shihr, is a coastal town in Hadhramaut, eastern Yemen.

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Arabia Felix

Arabia Felix (literally: Fertile/Happy Arabia; also Ancient Greek: Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία, Eudaemon Arabia) was the Latin name previously used by geographers to describe South Arabia, or what is now Yemen.

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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy

Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy or AAE is a scholarly journal for articles relating to the ancient Arabian Peninsula region.

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Arabian Peninsula

The Arabian Peninsula (شِبْهُ الْجَزِيرَة الْعَرَبِيَّة,, "Arabian Peninsula" or جَزِيرَةُ الْعَرَب,, "Island of the Arabs"), or Arabia, is a peninsula in West Asia, situated northeast of Africa on the Arabian Plate.

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Arabic

Arabic (اَلْعَرَبِيَّةُ, or عَرَبِيّ, or) is a Central Semitic language of the Afroasiatic language family spoken primarily in the Arab world.

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Aramco World

Aramco World (formerly Saudi Aramco World) is a bi-monthly magazine published by Aramco Services Company, a US-based subsidiary of Saudi Aramco, the state-owned oil company of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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Archaeological Institute of America

The Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) is North America's oldest society and largest organization devoted to the world of archaeology.

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Archaeology (magazine)

Archaeology is a bimonthly magazine for the general public, published by the Archaeological Institute of America.

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Archaeopress

Archaeopress is an academic publisher specialising in archaeology, based in Oxford.

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Asian Affairs

Asian Affairs, the journal of the Royal Society for Asian Affairs, has been published continuously since 1914 (originally as the Journal of the Central Asian Society, and from 1931 to 1969 as the Journal of the Royal Central Asian Society).

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Atlantis

Atlantis (Ἀτλαντὶς νῆσος|island of Atlas) is a fictional island mentioned in Plato's works Timaeus and Critias as part of an allegory on the hubris of nations. Atlantis of the Sands and Atlantis are mythological populated places.

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Atlantis in popular culture

The legendary island of Atlantis has often been depicted in literature, television shows, films and works of popular culture.

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Atlas Obscura

Atlas Obscura is an American-based online magazine and travel company.

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Barri Jones

Geraint Dyfed Barri Jones (4 April 1936 – 16 July 1999) was a classical scholar and archaeologist.

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Bedouin

The Bedouin, Beduin, or Bedu (singular) are pastorally nomadic Arab tribes who have historically inhabited the desert regions in the Arabian Peninsula, North Africa, the Levant, and Mesopotamia (Iraq).

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Bertram Thomas

Bertram Sidney Thomas (13 June 1892 – 27 December 1950) was an English diplomat and explorer who is the first documented Westerner to cross the Rub' al Khali (Empty Quarter).

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Brasil (mythical island)

Brasil, also known as Hy-Brasil and several other variants, is a phantom island said to lie in the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland.

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Brittia

Brittia (Βριττία), according to Procopius, was an island known to the inhabitants of the Low Countries under Frankish rule (viz. the North Sea coast of Austrasia), corresponding both to a real island used for burial and a mythological Isle of the Blessed, to which the souls of the dead are transported.

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Caravanserai

A caravanserai (or caravansary) was a roadside inn where travelers (caravaners) could rest and recover from the day's journey.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Dhofar Governorate

The Dhofar Governorate (translit) is the largest of the 11 governorates in the Sultanate of Oman in terms of area.

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Doggerland

Doggerland was an area of land in Northern Europe, now submerged beneath the southern North Sea.

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E. P. Dutton

E.

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Entrepôt

An entrepôt or transshipment port is a port, city, or trading post where merchandise may be imported, stored, or traded, usually to be exported again.

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Frankincense

Frankincense, also known as olibanum, is an aromatic resin used in incense and perfumes, obtained from trees of the genus Boswellia in the family Burseraceae.

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Freya Stark

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (31 January 18939 May 1993) was a British-Italian explorer and travel writer.

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Hadhramaut

Hadhramaut (Ḥaḍramawt / Ḥaḍramūt; Hadramautic: 𐩢𐩳𐩧𐩣𐩩, Ḥḍrmt) is a geographic region in South Arabia, comprising eastern Yemen, parts of western Oman and southern Saudi Arabia.

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Hendrickson Publishers

Hendrickson Publishers is an American academic and reference book house founded in 1980.

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Historiography of the Christianization of the Roman Empire

The growth of Christianity from its obscure origin 40 AD, with fewer than 1,000 followers, to being the majority religion of the entire Roman Empire by AD 400, has been examined through a wide variety of historiographical approaches.

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Ibn Ishaq

Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Ishaq ibn Yasar al-Muttalibi (translit; –767), known simply as Ibn Ishaq, was an 8th-century Muslim historian and hagiographer.

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Ibn Saud

Abdulaziz bin Abdul Rahman Al Saud (translit; 15 January 1876Ibn Saud's birth year has been a source of debate. It is generally accepted as 1876, although a few sources give it as 1880. According to British author Robert Lacey's book The Kingdom, a leading Saudi historian found records that show Ibn Saud in 1891 greeting an important tribal delegation.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Incense

Incense is an aromatic biotic material that releases fragrant smoke when burnt.

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) is an American 501(c)(3) professional association for electronics engineering, electrical engineering, and other related disciplines.

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Iram of the Pillars

Iram of the Pillars (Iram dhāt al-ʿimād; an alternative translation is Iram of the tentpoles), also called "Irum", "Irem", "Erum", or the EDOM "City of the pillars", is considered a lost city, region or tribe mentioned in the Quran. Atlantis of the Sands and Iram of the Pillars are Arabian mythology, Destroyed populated places, former populated places in Southwest Asia, mythological populated places and one Thousand and One Nights.

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Iraq Petroleum Company

The Iraq Petroleum Company (IPC), formerly known as the Turkish Petroleum Company (TPC), is an oil company that had a virtual monopoly on all oil exploration and production in Iraq between 1925 and 1961.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a Federally Funded Research and Development Center (FFRDC) in La Cañada Flintridge, California, Crescenta Valley, United States.

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Juris Zarins

Juris Zarins (Zariņš) (February 17, 1945 – July 8, 2023) was a German-born American archaeologist and professor at Missouri State University, who specialized in the Middle East. Atlantis of the Sands and Juris Zarins are Iram of the Pillars.

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Khor Rori

Khor Rori (translit) is a bar-built estuary at the mouth of Wādī Darbāt in the Dhofar Governorate, Oman, near Taqah. Atlantis of the Sands and Khor Rori are archaeological sites in Oman.

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Kumari Kandam

Kumari Kandam (Kumarikkaṇṭam) is a mythical continent, believed to be lost with an ancient Tamil civilization, supposedly located south of present-day India in the Indian Ocean.

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Lemuria

Lemuria, or Limuria, was a continent proposed in 1864 by zoologist Philip Sclater, theorized to have sunk beneath the Indian Ocean, later appropriated by occultists in supposed accounts of human origins.

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List of lost lands

Lost lands are islands or continents believed by some to have existed during pre-history, but to have since disappeared as a result of catastrophic geological phenomena.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Lost city

A lost city is an urban settlement that fell into terminal decline and became extensively or completely uninhabited, with the consequence that the site's former significance was no longer known to the wider world.

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Maxwell Museum of Anthropology

The Maxwell Museum of Anthropology is an anthropology museum located on the University of New Mexico campus in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

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Mayda

Mayda (variously known as Maida, Mayd, Mayde, Brazir, Mam, Asmaida, Asmayda, Bentusle, Las Maidas Bolunda and Vlaanderen) is a non-existent island in the North Atlantic that has been shown on several published maps at various points in history.

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Minerva (archaeology magazine)

Minerva, Archaeology and Ancient art, was a bi-monthly magazine publishing features on exhibitions, excavations, and museums, interviews, news items, and book reviews.

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Minoan eruption

The Minoan eruption was a catastrophic volcanic eruption that devastated the Aegean island of Thera (also called Santorini) circa 1600 BCE.

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Mu (mythical lost continent)

Mu is a lost continent introduced by Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), who identified the "Land of Mu" with Atlantis.

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Najran Province

Najran (نجران) is a province of Saudi Arabia, located in the south of the country.

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NASA Earth Observatory

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

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Natural disaster

A natural disaster is the very harmful impact on a society or community after a natural hazard event.

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Nicholas Clapp

Nicholas Clapp is a Borrego Springs, California based writer, film-maker, and amateur archaeologist who has been called "a modern day Indiana Jones".

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Nova (American TV program)

Nova (stylized as NOVΛ) is an American popular science television program produced by WGBH in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1974.

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Oman

Oman, officially the Sultanate of Oman, is a country in West Asia.

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One Thousand and One Nights

One Thousand and One Nights (أَلْفُ لَيْلَةٍ وَلَيْلَةٌ) is a collection of Middle Eastern folktales compiled in the Arabic language during the Islamic Golden Age. Atlantis of the Sands and One Thousand and One Nights are Arabian mythology.

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Persian Gulf

The Persian Gulf (Fars), sometimes called the (Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in West Asia.

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Petroleum Development Oman

Petroleum Development Oman (PDO) is the leading exploration and production company in the Sultanate of Oman.

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Ptolemy

Claudius Ptolemy (Πτολεμαῖος,; Claudius Ptolemaeus; AD) was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises, three of which were important to later Byzantine, Islamic, and Western European science.

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Quran

The Quran, also romanized Qur'an or Koran, is the central religious text of Islam, believed by Muslims to be a revelation directly from God (Allah).

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Ranulph Fiennes

Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet (born 7 March 1944), commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is a British explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Atlantis of the Sands and Ranulph Fiennes are Iram of the Pillars.

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Riyadh

Riyadh (ar-Riyāḍ) is the capital and largest city of Saudi Arabia.

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Rowman & Littlefield

Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group is an American independent academic publishing company founded in 1949.

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Royal Geographical Society

The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), often shortened to RGS, is a learned society and professional body for geography based in the United Kingdom.

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Royal Society for Asian Affairs

The Royal Society for Asian Affairs (RSAA) is a learned society based in London (United Kingdom).

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Rub' al Khali

The Rub' al KhaliOther standardized transliterations include: /. The is the assimilated Arabic definite article,, which can also be transliterated as.

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Sanaa

Sanaa (صَنْعَاء,, Yemeni Arabic:; Old South Arabian: 𐩮𐩬𐩲𐩥 Ṣnʿw), also spelled Sana'a and Sana, is the capital and largest city of Yemen and the capital of the Sanaa Governorate.

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Sandy Island, New Caledonia

Sandy Island (sometimes labelled in French Île de Sable, and in Spanish Isla Arenosa) is a phantom island that was charted for over a century as being located near the French territory of New Caledonia between the Chesterfield Islands and Nereus Reef in the eastern Coral Sea.

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Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabia, officially the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), is a country in West Asia and the Middle East.

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Scientific American

Scientific American, informally abbreviated SciAm or sometimes SA, is an American popular science magazine.

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Springer Nature

Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.

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Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing.

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St John Philby

Harry St John Bridger Philby, CIE (3 April 1885 – 30 September 1960), also known as Jack Philby or Sheikh Abdullah (الشيخ عبدالله), was a British Arabist, advisor, explorer, writer, and a colonial intelligence officer who served as an advisor to King Abdulaziz ibn Saud, the founder of Saudi Arabia. Atlantis of the Sands and st John Philby are Iram of the Pillars.

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T. E. Lawrence

Thomas Edward Lawrence (16 August 1888 – 19 May 1935) was a British archaeologist, army officer, diplomat, and writer who became renowned for his role in the Arab Revolt (1916–1918) and the Sinai and Palestine Campaign (1915–1918) against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.

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The Geographical Journal

The Geographical Journal is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers).

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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United Arab Emirates

The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.

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University of California, Los Angeles

The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States.

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Wabar craters

The Wabar craters are impact craters located in Saudi Arabia first brought to the attention of Western scholars by British Arabist, explorer, writer and Colonial Office intelligence officer St John Philby, who discovered them while searching for the legendary city of Ubar in Arabia's Rub' al Khali ("Empty Quarter") in 1932. Atlantis of the Sands and Wabar craters are Iram of the Pillars.

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Wendell Phillips (archaeologist)

Wendell Phillips (1921 – December 4, 1975) was an American archaeologist and oil magnate who led some of the first archaeological expeditions in the areas that are part of modern-day Yemen and Oman.

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Wiley-Blackwell

Wiley-Blackwell is an international scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly publishing business of John Wiley & Sons.

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Wilfred Thesiger

Sir Wilfred Patrick Thesiger (3 June 1910 – 24 August 2003), also known as Mubarak bin Landan (مُبَارَك بِن لَنْدَن, the blessed one of London) was a British military officer, explorer, and writer.

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Yabrin

Yabrin is a settlement in Saudi Arabia south of Riyadh, within the Eastern Region.

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Yaqut al-Hamawi

Yāqūt Shihāb al-Dīn ibn-ʿAbdullāh al-Rūmī al-Ḥamawī (1179–1229) (ياقوت الحموي الرومي) was a Muslim scholar of Byzantine ancestry active during the late Abbasid period (12th–13th centuries).

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Yemen

Yemen (al-Yaman), officially the Republic of Yemen, is a sovereign state in West Asia.

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Ys

Ys (pronounced), also spelled Is or Kêr-Is in Breton, and Ville d'Ys in French, is a mythical city on the coast of Brittany that was swallowed up by the ocean. Atlantis of the Sands and Ys are mythological populated places.

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See also

Arabian mythology

• Al-Mi'raj
• Al-Wakwak
• Alexander the Great in Arabic tradition
• Atlantis of the Sands
• Bab-el-Mandeb
• Book of Idols
• Book of Wonders
• Ilah
• Iram of the Pillars
• Juma and the Magic Jinn
• Karkadann
• Kujata
• Les mille et une nuits
• Magic carpet
• Mahd al-Aadiyya
• Mellified man
• Monotheism in pre-Islamic Arabia
• Mount Qaf
• One Thousand and One Nights
• Picatrix
• Qareen
• Religion in pre-Islamic Arabia
• Scheherazade
• Shaddad
• Shams al-Ma'arif
• Speak, Bird, Speak Again
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
• Zaratan
• Zarqa al Yamama
• ʿĀd

Archaeological sites in Oman

• Al-Akhdhar
• Al-Akhdhar, Oman
• Al-Amqat
• Al-Baleed Archaeological Park
• Al-Bustan, Oman
• Al-Khawdh (archaeological site), Oman
• Al-Moyassar
• Al-Nejd, Sultanate of Oman
• Amlah
• Archaeological Sites of Bat, Al-Khutm and Al-Ayn
• Archaeological site of Shisr
• Atlantis of the Sands
• Bahla Fort
• Ghul, Oman
• Izki
• Jebel al-Salayli (archaeological site)
• Khor Rori
• Land of Frankincense
• Lizq
• Pre-Islamic recent period
• Qalhat
• Qaryat al-Saih
• Qumayrah Valley
• Ras al-Jinz
• Samad al-Shan
• Tiwi, Oman
• Tomb of Job
• Wadi Suq culture
• ʿUmq al-Rabaḫ
• ʿUqdat al-Bakrah

Iram of the Pillars

• Al-Fajr (surah)
• Atlantis of the Sands
• George Hedges
• Ginny Fiennes
• Hud (prophet)
• Iram of the Pillars
• Juris Zarins
• Ranulph Fiennes
• Remote sensing in archaeology
• St John Philby
• Thalaba the Destroyer
• The Nameless City
• Wabar craters
• Wadi Rum
• ʿĀd

Mythological populated places

• Agartha
• Atlantis
• Atlantis of the Sands
• Ayodhya (Ramayana)
• Biringan
• Camelot
• Ciimnuai
• City of the Caesars
• El Dorado
• Golgonooza
• Houssa
• Iram of the Pillars
• Jabulqa and Jabulsa
• Kalapa
• Kitezh
• La Ciudad Blanca
• Leđan
• Lost City of Z
• Lyonesse
• Norumbega
• Paititi
• Quivira
• Seron
• Seven Cities of Gold
• Vineta
• Ys
• Zerzura

One Thousand and One Nights

• Abou Hassan (story)
• Abu al-Husn and His Slave-Girl Tawaddud
• Ahmed and Paribanou
• Atlantis of the Sands
• Dandan
• Falak (Arabian legend)
• Hassan of Basra
• Iram of the Pillars
• Le livre des mille nuits et une nuit
• Les mille et une nuits
• List of One Thousand and One Nights characters
• List of stories within One Thousand and One Nights
• One Hundred and One Nights (book)
• One Thousand and One Nights
• Open sesame
• Shahrokh (mythical bird)
• Story of Ahikar
• The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night
• The Fisherman and the Jinni
• The Sisters Envious of Their Cadette
• The Three Apples
• Translations of One Thousand and One Nights

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis_of_the_Sands

Also known as Atlantis of the Sands: the Search for a Lost City in Southern Arabia, Iram, Oman, Ubar, Oman, Wabar, Oman.

, Mu (mythical lost continent), Najran Province, NASA Earth Observatory, Natural disaster, Nicholas Clapp, Nova (American TV program), Oman, One Thousand and One Nights, Persian Gulf, Petroleum Development Oman, Ptolemy, Quran, Ranulph Fiennes, Riyadh, Rowman & Littlefield, Royal Geographical Society, Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Rub' al Khali, Sanaa, Sandy Island, New Caledonia, Saudi Arabia, Scientific American, Springer Nature, Springer Science+Business Media, St John Philby, T. E. Lawrence, The Geographical Journal, The Independent, The New York Times, UNESCO, United Arab Emirates, University of California, Los Angeles, Wabar craters, Wendell Phillips (archaeologist), Wiley-Blackwell, Wilfred Thesiger, Yabrin, Yaqut al-Hamawi, Yemen, Ys.