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Buried in the Arabian desert’s sand are clues to the peninsula’s wetter, greener past. Fossils from long-extinct elephants, antelope and jaguars paint a prehistoric scene not of a barren ...
Deep in the Saudi desert scientists have discovered a giant, 325,000-year-old tusk belonging to an extinct species of elephant, the BBC's Frank Gardner reports.
In a phenomenon that has surprised citizens and experts alike, the Al Nafud desert in Saudi Arabia’s Al Jawf province experienced its first documented snowfall in recent history.
‘Queen of the Desert,’ with Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, Robert Pattinson. Written and directed by Werner Herzog. 128 minutes. Rated PG-13 for brief nudity and some thematic ...
Archaeologists have found life-sized camel carvings on a rock near the southern border of Saudi Arabia's Nafud desert. A total of nine large camel specimens have been identified in the drawings ...
I am in the Nafud desert, a vast tract of sandy and rocky wilderness in northern Saudi Arabia, to experience levels of heat that I am not built to endure ...
Oxford Archaeologists Discover Over 300 Ancient Hunting Sites from 8000 BCE in the Arabian Desert These new discoveries are significant stepping stones to answer the mysteries of our ancient history.
Archaeologists from the University of Oxford used satellite images to identify and map more than 350 monumental hunting structures, known as “desert kites,” in northern Saudi Arabia and ...
Deep in the Saudi desert scientists have discovered a giant, 325,000-year-old tusk belonging to an extinct species of elephant, the BBC's Frank Gardner reports.