During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

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 world's largest construction project is carving a path through the Saudi Arabian desert, but will the 170-kilometer-long megacity known as "the Line" ever become a reality? Journalists cannot ...

Based on a climatic record from desert speleothems, researchers show recurrent humid intervals in the central Arabian interior over the past 8 ... and rulings in courthouses around the U.S. and the ...

Despite vast oil fields underground, the world’s largest sand desert is almost entirely uninhabited and mostly unexplored. It’s served mainly by the world’s longest straight road – Saudi ...

The Saharo-Arabian Desert is one of the largest biogeographic barriers on Earth, hindering the dispersal of animals between Africa and Eurasia, and is at least eleven million years old. How did ...

Exploring the region felt otherworldly, and the dramatic desert landscape and ... as a key link between the Arabian Peninsula and the Mediterranean world. This position facilitated the flourishing ...