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.

An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

An area logistically more dangerous to cross than Antarctica, given that helicopters cannot operate over significant ...

In this text, they refer to their advances in the Empty Quarter, one of the largest deserts known. This area of Arabia, however, was not always a desert as such, but there was a lake 1,100 square ...

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 ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once ... interdisciplinary team that documented an ancient water-sculpted landscape in the Empty Quarter, one of the largest and driest deserts in ...

A number of companies offer organized tours of the Empty Quarter; some of the more reputable options are Arabian Adventures, Emirates Tours, Abu Dhabi Adventure Tours and Abu Dhabi Desert Safari.

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 Science ...

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 ...