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—one ...

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Based on a climatic record from desert speleothems, researchers show recurrent humid intervals in the central Arabian interior over the past 8 million years. (Paul Breeze/The Green Arabia Project) (CN ...

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 ...

When you think of deserts, you might envision isolated wastelands confined to single nations. Yet the world's most massive arid regions defy political boundaries, sprawling across continents and ...

A trip to Dubai is incomplete without experiencing the vast, golden expanse of the Arabian Desert. Ranked as one of the ...

The Arabian Desert, today the largest expanse of windswept sand dunes on Earth, experienced recurring periods of humidity millions of years ago, researchers report April 9 in Nature. The study may ...