Arab historians state that the name Ubar, or Wabar, refers not to a city, but to a wide land in southern Arabia. There is no evidence that Shisur was once a city called Ubar, although it was probably a caravanserai on an overland frankincense trade route. This sinkhole exposes the Middle Eocene Dammam limestone aquifer and is an isolated waterhole. However, this is 175 km south-east of Ramlat Shuʿayt and is in the stony desert (najd), not the sands. NASA has published satellite images and online articles about "Ubar" since 1994, showing the sinkhole at Shisur. Although Thomas (1933) denied Ubar was a "Lost City", Fiennes (1992) and Clapp (1998) claim to have discovered it at the once walled sinkhole at Shisur in interior Dhofar. Thomas published this statement in 1932, and this led to a search for Ubar by Philby (1933-1934), Phillips (1953-1956), and Clapp, Fiennes, Hedges, and Zarins (1990-1996). It now lies buried beneath the sands of the Ramlat Shuʿayt" in north-western Dhofar. Space Technology Frankincense Trade Routes Lost City of Ubar. Preprint (Draft being sent to journal) External Source(s) hdl:2014/22395. It was a great city, rich in treasures with date gardens and a fort of red silver. Space Technology, Ancient Frankincese Trade Routes, and the Discovery of the Lost City of Ubar. In addition, once you are happy with our captain, you can add him to your favorite list, so the system will call him automatically every time you request a ride.In 1930-1931, Bertram Thomas became the first westerner to cross the 660,000-km² Rubʿ al-Khālī desert, and was shown wide tracks between dunes by the Bedouin who accompanied him. You can pay for your trip in cash/card or use the balance in your built-in wallet. In Ubar you can share your trip details, captain information and pictures to your loved ones via WhatsApp. Ubar is the newest technology available in Oman, and it has very unique and exclusive services. Therefore, our smart app is the smartest and most secure solution available in Oman.
In order to actively contribute to the development of the transport sector in the Sultanate of Oman, we have provided the most intelligent and advanced solutions to manage our mission. And, we are working in parallel with the Ministry of Transport, Communications and Information Technology in order to contribute In building this sector in line with Oman 2040 vision. In 2021, we decided to invest our long experience in information technology's field and provide a smart solutions in order to cover the needs for services in the public transportation sector, such as the shared taxi service through smart phone applications. Out of this ancient history of the lost city of Ubar, we were inspired by the name of our company specialized in building and developing smart cities in the Sultanate of Oman, in reference to the network of roads that linked caravans in the Arabian Peninsula to the city of Ubar, which was the most important station in the Empty Quarter desert for the exchange of commercial goods, perhaps the most prominent of which is frankincense Omani. A major wadi, or dry stream bed, runs across the middle of the image and is shown largely in white due to strong radar scattering in all channels displayed (L and C HH, L-HV)." The prominent green areas (L-HV) are rough limestone rocks, which form a rocky desert floor. The prominent magenta colored area is a region of large sand dunes, which are bright reflectors at both L-and C-band. The image is constructed from three of the available SIR-C channels and displays L-band, HH (horizontal transmit and receive) data as red, C-band HH as blue, and L-band HV (horizontal transmit, vertical receive) as green. The image covers an area about 50 by 100 kilometers (31 miles by 62 miles). The SIR-C image shown is centered at 18.4 degrees north latitude and 53.6 degrees east longitude. This image was acquired on orbit 65 of space shuttle Endeavour on Apby the Space borne Imaging Radar C/X-Band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SIR-C/X-SAR). and was a remote desert outpost where caravans were assembled for the transport of frankincense across the desert. Archeologists believe Ubar existed from about 2800 B.C. The ancient city was discovered in 1992 with the aid of remote sensing data. "This is a radar image of the region around the site of the lost city of Ubar in southern Oman, on the Arabian Peninsula. Space Radar Image of the Lost City of Ubar,