Talk:Iram of the Pillars
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[edit] Omar Khayyam on Iram of the Pillars
Zelda hasn't commented on the reference to Khayyam. I've removed and copy it below:
... and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:
- Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose,
- And Jamshyd's Sev'n-ring'd Cup where no one knows; (1859 version)
– Kaveh (talk)[[]] 00:49, 1 Dec 2004 (UTC)
[edit] Contradiction
At the beginning, the article states that Ubar was founded around 3000 BC, but later on, the date of 900 BC is given.
1984 NASA Challenging imaging was Side Looking Radar. These are not photographs. These images, when combined with image processed LandSat and SPOT data helped substantiate presence of the ancient caravan routes partially buried by sandd dunes and seen by earlier ground forays (1920's not 1953 as reported). These images did not show buried cities!
Nicholas Clapp's book's copywright date is 1998, 1992 as reported.
Four subsequent excavations were conducted by Dr. Juris Zarins, then of SE Missouri State University, that traced the historical presence by the peoople of 'Ad, assumed ancestral builders of Ubar.
