A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

Ammon News - The Empty Quarter, a vast desert on the Arabian Peninsula, was not always barren — a study by King Abdullah ...

An area logistically more dangerous to cross than Antarctica, given that helicopters cannot operate over significant ...

barren desert,” Michael Petraglia, a researcher on the study, said in the press release. “This is confirmed by abundant archaeological evidence found in the Empty Quarter and along its ancient ...

A number of companies offer organized tours of the Empty Quarter; some of the more reputable options are Arabian Adventures, Emirates Tours, Abu Dhabi Adventure Tours and Abu Dhabi Desert Safari.

Arabian Sands. It was these words—about Thesiger’s time in Oman from 1945 to 1950, when he crossed the sea of dunes called the Rub‘ al-Khali, or the Empty Quarter—that first made me want ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of Science ...

One of the world's largest deserts was once home to avast lake and river system, an international team revealed in research published ...

The Empty Quarter, or Rub' al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world's largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers -- mainly in Saudi Arabia -- it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...