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

"I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions,” the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger wrote in his 1959 travelogue, Arabian Sands. It was these words—about ...

The paper "Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub' al Khali Desert" has been published in Communications ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was ...

Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil and gas giant, has discovered 14 new oil and gas fields and reservoirs in the ...

One of the most arid and inhospitable places on the planet was, in the past, a green paradise with lakes and rivers. Climate ...

Khali—known as “The Empty Quarter”—has been synonymous with extreme aridity, endless dunes, and a relentless climate that makes this vast expanse in the southern Arabian Peninsula one of the most ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered ...

In a major boost to its upstream ambitions, Saudi Arabia has announced the discovery of 14 new oil and gas fields and ...

Rub’ al-Khali is the largest “sand sea” in the world, but it was once filled with something quite different: water. And lots of it. Researchers suggest that the lake once reached up to 42 ...