Atlantis of the Sands, also known as Iram, Ubar, Wabar, the City of Brass, or Iram of the Pillars (Arabic: إرَم ذات العماد‎), is a reference to a lost city, a country or an area mentioned in the Quran. It was described by T. E. Lawrence as "a city of immeasurable wealth, destroyed by God for its arrogance, swallowed forever in the sands of the Rub' al Khali desert". It was located in the Arabian Peninsula, somewhere in the desert.