New research reveals that the Arabian Peninsula wasn't always the barren landscape we see today, but rather cycled through ...

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

Mineral formations in caves reveal recurring periods of humidity in the Arabian Desert over the last 8 million years.

Imagine standing in the heart of a sun-scorched desert. The wind hushes, the world holds its breath, and suddenly, a deep, thunderous boom rolls across the sand—so startling and powerful, it seems as ...

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

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula ... mainly in Saudi Arabia—it dominates the Arabian Peninsula, with dunes towering up to 250 meters.

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once shaped by a massive lake and a network of rivers. The Rub’ al-Khali, ...

Khali—known as “The Empty Quarter”—has been synonymous with extreme aridity, endless dunes, and a relentless climate that ...

A wide spectrum of colour harmonies derives from the resonance of contrasting hues of the sand grains in the ripples that cover the dunes. A true portrait of the desert where the light-coloured ...

But in between the sand dunes is a hidden world of wildlife ... location and climatic conditions before investigating the Arabian desert in Dubai. Focussing on the Arabian desert she looks at ...