The slightly less Lost City of Ubar
The Lost City of Ubar is located in a remote desert location, and is ruled by an immortal Queen, Ishtar-Re, who is a (presumably) metaphorical sister to Queen Albia of England. Albia lost touch with Ishtar-Re many long years ago following the collapse of the Mirror network they used to communicate. Fifteen years prior to Agatha's visit to England, rumors of the city's location reached ✣ Albia via visiting dignitaries, and her Royal Archaeological Expeditionary Force was dispatched in an ultimately successful effort to re-establish contact.
Possibly relevant outside information[]
- Ishtar was an ancient female deity worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, and Assyrians and who had connections with Venus.
- One of the oldest and most famous of these cities was the city of Uruk.
- The Lost City of Ubar may be a joke regarding lost Uber drivers. But then again, anything is possible.
- Ubar is one of the names of the "Atlantis of the Sands", a rumored lost city somewhere in Arabia. It is often likened to the lost city of Iram mentioned in the Qur'an.
- A play on "Opar" from ERB's Tarzan series and PJ Farmer's follow on works, supposedly a lost minor colony of "Atlantis" (or some version of the great drowned empire), full of treasures, strange ancient knowledge (which Tarzan doesn't bother with) lost in the jungles which is a bit of a trope along with deserts and mountains...