During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past ...

Rare 7,000-year-old alien-like statue discovered in ancient settlement. ... one of the Arabian Peninsula's oldest settlements. Christmas snow warning issued as map shows areas at risk of winter storm; ...

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 rock-carved "Treasury" featured in "Indiana Jones ...

The star catalog was made by ancient Greek astronomer Hipparchus around 162 and 127 BCE, 1,400 years before the telescope. Get the Popular Science daily newsletter💡 Email address Sign up Thank you!

Arabian horse size and attributes. The Arabian has contributed several of its coveted qualities to many of the modern light breeds of horses today. It’s a compact breed that has only 23 ...

The Landmarks of the Ancient Kingdom of Saba represents a period of the South Arabian history from the 1st millennium BCE until the arrival of Islam to the region around 630 CE, when the ancient ...

The application to turn an ancient indigenous landmark into a World Heritage listed site has been delayed after the government accidentally submitted a map of the area in too low a resolution to ...

Mathew Stewart at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and his colleagues excavated a trench inside Umm Jirsan. At 1.5 kilometres in length, it is the biggest lava tube in Saudi Arabia. The ...

One of the sites investigated as a hub of these early commercial networks in the southeastern Arabian Peninsula is Kalba. Located in the Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, on the shores of the ...

New technology helps archaeologists explore the past 03:37. The discovery of a 4,000-year-old fortified town hidden in an oasis in modern-day Saudi Arabia reveals how life at the time was slowly ...

A French-Saudi research team unearthed the 4,000-year-old hidden town named al-Natah within the walled oasis of Khaybar, a fertile land surrounded by desert in the northwest of the Arabian Peninsul… ...