Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...

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 ...

home to the Rub Al Khali (Empty Quarter). As the largest uninterrupted sand mass in the world, the Empty Quarter provides the perfect backdrop for a variety of desert excursions. Whether you'd ...

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.