Mystery AtlasUbar
A city described in Arabian legend and the Quran as destroyed for its people's defiance, nicknamed the 'Atlantis of the Sands'; searches for it, including Harry St John Philby's 1932 expedition, have found meteorite craters and later, at a separate site, a caravan crossroads but no confirmed lost city matching the legend.
This is a knowledge-graph entry: what our data records about Ubar and how it connects to the rest of the atlas. It does not have a full article of its own yet.
Connected to
How this topic links to the people, places, and ideas around it — drawn from our knowledge graph.
Related Mysteries
Ubar is frequently compared to Atlantis — Ubar's popular epithet, the 'Atlantis of the Sands', makes the comparison explicit: both are legendary lost sites whose searches produced real discoveries rather than confirmation of the legend.
People
Ubar was investigated by Harry St John 'Abdullah' Philby — Philby's 1932 expedition set out specifically to find Ubar; it located the Wabar craters instead.
Places
Ubar is frequently confused with Wabar Craters — Philby initially believed the Wabar craters were the remains of the legendary city itself before their meteoritic origin was recognised.