Citadel of Ubar

The Citadel of Ubar sat near the town of Shisur. It covered fifteen acres, surrounded by crumbling walls, excavated from the sands and reconstructed Guard towers interrupted the walls at regular intervals, roofless stony circles a story high. The central citadel was a three story structure of stacked stone. The castle perched atop a low hill that overlooked a deep ragged cleft in the ground.

Before, there had only been the citadel, in disrepair, just a mound of stones, and a short section of wall. Now the entire encircling ramparts had been freed from the sands, partially rebuilt by archaeologists, along with the stumplike bases of the seven towers that once guarded its walls.