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

Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers. Story by Rebecca Shavit • 18m. ... Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, ...

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 ...

The empty quarter desert, Rub al-Khali, Khubash, Saudi Arabia. Photo: ... or ‘Empty Quarter’— a desert spanning 250,000 square miles on the Arabian Peninsula.

The explorer and writer Wilfred Thesiger, renowned for his love of Arabia, described in his 1948 travelogue, Across the Empty Quarter, how new wealth across the peninsula had allowed hunters to ...

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert (pictured) in Arabian Peninsula — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret ...

The Arabian oryx is a medium-sized white-coated antelope with striking black marks and straight horns that can reach 3 feet in length. This animal is one of the world’s most desert-adapted mammals.

"Be Afraid" is the cry for the 2023 Dakar Rally, the fourth to be held in Saudi Arabia, as organisers promised Thursday it would be the most challenging with a lot of sand dune racing.Fifteen days of ...

Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once home to a vast lake and rivers. Rebecca Shavit. May 27, 2025 at 6:07 PM. ... Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, ...