A member of the research team leading the excavation, Dr. Right from the moment remains started to be unearthed, it was understood that this ruined city belonged to ‘Ad and of Iram’s pillars mentioned in the Qur’an, because among the structures unearthed were the towers particularly referred to in the Qur’an. Some Commentators understand Iram to be the name of an eponymous hero of the ‘Ad, in which case the following line, “with lofty pillars”, should be construed “of lofty stature”. It boasted of lofty architecture (“lofty pillars”). “Seest thou not How thy Lord dealt With the ‘Ad (people) - Of the (city of) Iram, With lofty pillars, The like of which were not produced in (all) the land? " (Qu'ran, 89:6-8)” Iram would seem to have been an ancient ‘Ad capital, in southern Arabia. So here in 1973, comes confirmation of the fact that, after all, there really was an ancient city by that name, wherever it was said by Holy Quran. The people of Eblus used to do business with the people of Iram. p.736) which confirms that in those tablets the city of Iram is mentioned. Interestingly enough, you will find the details in the National Geographic of December 1978 (pp.730-, esp. In fact, the library discovered in Eblus contains more day tablets that are more than four thousand years old than all the other tablets combined from all the other sites. In 1973 the excavation in Syria at the site of the ancient city of Eblus uncovered the largest collection of cuneiform writings on clay tablets ever assembled.
The city of Iram has been unknown to history, so unknown that even some Muslim commentators, have commented on this mention of the city in the Qur’an as being perhaps figurative, that Iram was possibly a man and not a city. The Bible, Qur'an, Hadith and Science - The Qur’an mentions a city by the name of IRAM (89:7).
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