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

Soar over the Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial footage as the drone glides ...

According to the release, the ancient lake likely reached its largest size around 8,000 years ago during a time of heavy ...

Scientists managed to reconstruct the ancient landscape of the Rub’ al-Khali, providing evidence of the existence of an extinct hydrographic network and a large lake that transformed this desert into ...

Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub’ al Khali Desert. Communications Earth & Environment , 2025; 6 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02224-1 Cite This Page : ...

The paper "Monsoonal imprint on late Quaternary landscapes of the Rub' al Khali Desert" has been published in Communications Earth & Environment. The team, which was led by Dr. Abdallah Zaki and ...

Rub’ al-Khali is the largest “sand sea” in the ... and pastoral groups into what is now a dry, barren desert,” Michael Petraglia, a researcher on the study, said in the press release.

A tree grows in an arid region where the water table is just below the sand in Oman's Rub al Khali desert. Petraglia is a senior author of the study, published in Nature. He has worked on the ...

The Empty Quarter (Rub’ al-Khali), the vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula, was not always an arid landscape. A recent study by the University of Geneva (UNIGE), King Abdullah University of ...

The 159-mile long highway runs from Haradh to Al Batha, crossing the Rub Al-Khali desert. Previously, Australia's Eyre Highway held the record with approximately 91 miles of straight road.