Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

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

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

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 ...

Ancient rivers and lakes lie beneath Arabia’s harshest desert, revealing a lush, forgotten world once shaped by monsoons and ...

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 ...

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

Findings suggest favourable conditions in the Empty Quarter of the peninsula fostered grasslands and savannahs, enabling human and animal migration. A new study posits that the vast, arid ...