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

The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study may ...

The history of Bedouin tattoos stretches back centuries, intertwined with the nomadic Bedouin tribes of the Arabian Peninsula ...

"I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions,” the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger ...

Based on a climatic record from desert speleothems, researchers show recurrent humid intervals in the central Arabian interior over the past 8 million years. (Paul Breeze/The Green Arabia Project) (CN ...

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 ...

The lush past of the world's largest desert Date: April 7, 2025 Source: Université de Genève Summary: The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study ...

followed by a sleep under a starlit sky in a traditional Bedouin-style desert camp and waking up to the fresh desert air, a beautiful sunrise, and a light breakfast before returning to the city. Dune ...

Focussing on the Arabian desert she looks at adaptations made by ... are nicknamed the ship of the desert and Ferne explains how Bedouin people have adapted to live in desert conditions.

The picture shows a cave in the north of Saudi Arabia. The Saharo-Arabian Desert experienced repeated wetter periods over the past eight million years. Wetter conditions favoured the exchange of ...