CLASSIC: The Lost City of Ubar: The True Story of "The Atlantis of the Sands"

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🗓️ 24 October 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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You've probably heard of the Atlantis before, but have you heard the legends of another lost city, somewhere out in the endless sands of the Arabian Peninsula's Rub' al Khali (or "Empty Quarter")? Tales of this city, known as Ubar or Iram of the Pillars, surface in countries throughout the region. The city is even mentioned in the Quran. And, like Atlantis, over the centuries numerous people have tried to find it -- but there's one important difference between Iram and Atlantis... it appears someone actually found Iram. Tune in to learn more.

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0:00.0	Fellow conspiracy realist, this is a classic bit of hidden history for a long time.
0:07.8	We have been obsessed with lost civilizations, lost cities, and there's one, everybody
0:15.2	knows about Atlantis, right?
0:16.7	But there's one that I think a lot of people in the West never really heard about until the video game series uncharted
0:24.1	or the magic card.
0:26.7	Oh, which one are we talking about?
0:28.7	This episode that we're doing today?
0:31.8	Ubar, the Lost City of Ubar.
0:33.6	Isn't that an MTG card?
0:35.3	Maybe.
0:36.2	I don't remember. But you would know, you're my expert on this Maybe. I don't, I don't remember.
0:38.0	But you would know. You're my expert on this.
0:39.8	I don't know all the magic cards. There have been so many sets.
0:43.9	Dilling, cut that part out.
0:47.0	No, we'll keep it. We'll keep it. We'll actually pause for a second because I'm probably
0:52.1	incorrect about this. Matt, you are my resident expert for
0:56.2	all things MTG. So I will take your word on this as our expert. But you remember, man, back in,
1:03.1	gosh, it was 2020 when we started looking into the story of the so-called Atlantis of the Sands.
1:10.5	I seem to recall something about this, but I am blanking on most of the details, which
1:16.0	means there's still stuff to discover in here.
1:18.9	Yeah, also known as Aram of the Pillars.
1:22.8	This city has long been rumored to exist somewhere in the endless stretch of desert called the empty quarter of Saudi Arabia or the Arabian Peninsula.
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