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 : ...

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 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.

It was these words—about Thesiger’s time in Oman from 1945 to 1950, when he crossed the sea of dunes called the Rub‘ al-Khali ... which means simply desert-dweller. The next day, I decided ...

the magnificent Qasr Al Sarab Desert Resort by Anantara mysteriously emerges from the dunes of the Rub’ Al Khali, the world’s largest sand desert. Tucked away on the outskirts of Abu Dhabi, this ...