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Iram of the Pillars (sometimes Irem of the Pillars) is a lost city located on the Arabian Peninsula.
Irem is also a Japanese video game developer, creator of the popular R-Type series.

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	Irem, also known as Irem, the City of Pillars, is a lost city located in the Arabian Peninsula.
	Irem (also spelled Iram, or Irâm) is mentioned in the Koran, the Arabian Nights; and in Omar Khayyam's Rubaiyat.
	These accounts describe Irem as a city of the tribe of Ad, destroyed ages before for its sins and lying buried somewhere in the desert sand.

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