(Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to ...

Researchers confirmed a total of six different fortified walls surrounding a network of oases in the northwest Arabian Desert. The oldest wall is upwards of 5,000 years old, with some new finds dating ...

Editor’s note: Jim Cornett recently returned from the arid lands of Turkey. This is the first of three columns describing his experiences. I am in the Arabian Desert in Turkey and write this column ...

The Arabian sand boa (Eryx jayakari) is a remarkable desert-dwelling snake renowned for its distinctive appearance and ingenious hunting techniques. Native to the arid, sandy landscapes of the Arabian ...

Move over Indiana Jones, the archaeologists at the University of Oxford's School of Archaeology have made a mind-blowing discovery! Using Google Earth, the team has identified not one, not two, but ...

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia — At over 400,000 square miles, the Empty Quarter in the Arabian desert is the world’s biggest continuous sand ecosystem. It’s the natural habitat of the Detroit-born Ford Bronco ...

This image shows carvings of camels across a rock, in a desert in northern Saudi Arabia in 2023. (Maria Guagnin/Sahout Rock Art and Archaeology Project via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have ...

It’s not just for ChatGPT. Archaeologists have increasingly been finding new ways to deploy artificial intelligence in their search for buried truths—especially in terrain inhospitable to human ...

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NEW YORK (AP) — Researchers have discovered life-size rock carvings of camels, gazelles and other animals in the Saudi Arabian desert. The carvings date back to around 12,000 years ago and many are ...