During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent ...

Ancient kingdoms, over and over ... and from Anatolia in modern-day Turkey in the north to parts of the Arabian desert.

Long before the advent of Islam, Arabia was a crossroads of trade, culture, and belief. This documentary explores the social and religious landscape of the Arabian Peninsula, from tribal alliances to ...

The Bible recounts how Moses climbed a mysterious mountain, met with God face-to-face and descended carrying the Ten Commandments etched in stone. The true location of this sacred site has been lost ...

The true location of this sacred site has been lost to history, sparking debate over whether Mount Sinai lies in Egypt or across the border in Saudi Arabia ... Egypt's Sinai Peninsula because ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent. Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near ...

and social importance in the ancient Arabian Gulf region. Additionally, a Polish excavation team is working at the Bahra 1 site in Subiya, which dates back to 5700 BC, representing the oldest and ...

Researchers from Khalifa University, Saudi Arabia, working with regional and international collaborators, have examined Yemeni DNA to reveal how migrations from the Levant, Arabia, and East Africa ...

The Bahra 1 site has been a key source for understanding ancient Stone Age societies in Arabia since 2009. It was one of the Arabian Peninsula's oldest settlements, with occupation from around ...

This discovery reveals significant insights into social complexity. The remains of a 4,000-year-old fortified town in a beautiful oasis in northwest Saudi Arabia have been discovered by ...

The remains of the town, dubbed al-Natah, were long concealed by the walled oasis of Khaybar, a green and fertile speck surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsula. Then an ancient ...

The finds are likely the remains of a 2,000-year-old temple built by immigrants from Nabataea, an ancient kingdom on the Arabian Peninsula whose ... The archaeologists' map of their excavation ...