An international team including UNIGE reveals that the Arabian Peninsula desert once hosted a vast lake and rivers, which ...

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

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

I’m here in one of the world’s largest hot deserts - the Arabian Desert. It’s located between about 12 to 34 degrees north of the equator and it occupies most of the Arabian Peninsula.

The Empty Quarter, or Rub' al-Khali in Arabic, is one of the world's largest deserts. Spanning nearly 650,000 square kilometers -- mainly in Saudi Arabia -- it dominates the Arabian Peninsula ...