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

Ancient rocks reveal there were several humid spells in Arabia’s past, which might have given early hominins a route out of ...

The discovery of Green Arabia not only reshapes our understanding of ancient climates but may also solve one of humanity’s greatest mysteries.

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

Rolling grasslands stretched across the peninsula, dotted with lakes and wetlands where herds of elephants, gazelles, and ...

Now one of the driest places on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert may have been key to human migration history.

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

Bronze Age cymbals found in Oman reveal how music united ancient cultures across trade routes, ceremonies, and rituals.

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

One of the planet's largest, driest biogeographic barriers was once lush with rivers and lakes for 8 million years, which encouraged the movements of water-dependent animals and indicates the ...

These findings indicate that contact between ancient communities on both sides of the Arabian Gulf resulted in shared musical traditions central to rituals and religious beliefs, Douglas’ team says.

Faysal Bibi is a senior scientist at the Natural History Museum – Leibniz ... which today douses eastern Africa and the southern Arabian coast with precipitation, but in the past extended ...