Ancient CivilizationsIram of the Pillars: The Lost City of the Sands Posted on January 10, 2025 by Administrator Iram of the Pillars seems like something out of an Indiana Jones movie: a lost city of Arabia, a great metropolis buried somewhere beneath the sands. It has the attention of the famous explorer Ranulph Fiennes, the award winning filmmaker Nicholas Clapp, and of course, almost inevitably Lawrence of Arabia.