In a nutshell The Arabian Peninsula experienced multiple wet periods over the past 8 million years, transforming from desert ...

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

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

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study ...

One of the world's largest deserts was once home to a vast lake and river system, an international team revealed in research ...

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

Mineral deposits in limestone caves show that the now arid interior of Saudi Arabia repeatedly experienced increased rainfall ...

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, ...

Ammon News - The Empty Quarter, a vast desert on the Arabian Peninsula, was not always barren — a study by King Abdullah ...

Ancient rivers and lakes lie beneath Arabia’s harshest desert, revealing a lush, forgotten world once shaped by monsoons and ...

Until now, little was known about the former climate of the Arabian Peninsula, as analyses of paleoclimate archives ... and transformed the Arabian landscape from a dry desert to habitable landscape.