Researchers believe rainfall and flooding changed the landscape of the arid desert to a green area some 8,000 years ago.

An area logistically more dangerous to cross than Antarctica, given that helicopters cannot operate over significant ...

Rub’ al-Khali is the largest “sand sea” in the world, but it was once filled with something quite different: water. And lots of it. Researchers suggest that the lake once reached up to 42 ...

It harbours greater biological diversity than any other part of Ar-Rub' al-Khali and features one of the world’s largest longitudinal sand dune systems overlying a dissected limestone plateau, and the ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

It harbours greater biological diversity than any other part of Ar-Rub' al-Khali and features one of the world’s largest longitudinal sand dune systems overlying a dissected limestone plateau, and the ...

An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula's desert was once shaped by a massive lake and a network of rivers. The Rub’ al-Khali, ...

"I had found a freedom unattainable in civilization; a life unhampered by possessions,” the English explorer Wilfred Thesiger ...

Even so, Rub’ al-Khali was once home to large populations ... It exists in harsh desert environments like wadis, sand dunes, and stony plains, often going weeks without water.

Surrounding the Liwa Oasis in the western part of the emirate is the Al Gharbia region, home to the Rub Al Khali (Empty Quarter). As the largest uninterrupted sand ... or a wild dune buggy ride ...

Nestled on Abu Dhabi’s outskirts, Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort offers a luxury escape - now enhanced with SANIPEX outdoor ...