Take a flight of discovery high above Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial ...

Set deep in Abu Dhabi’s Rub Al Khali desert, IHG’s Vignette Collection turns its back on the expected. No glitter, no excess. Just wide-open dunes, deep stillness, and experiences designed to ...

Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, one of the largest continuous sand deserts in the world. Covering nearly 650,000 square kilometers, the Empty Quarter today ...

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret.

Rub’ al-Khali is the largest “sand sea” in the ... and pastoral groups into what is now a dry, barren desert,” Michael Petraglia, a researcher on the study, said in the press release.

Scientists managed to reconstruct the ancient landscape of the Rub’ al-Khali, providing evidence of the existence of an extinct hydrographic network and a large lake that transformed this desert into ...

Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02224-1 Cite This Page : ...

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 ...