Take a flight of discovery high above Rub' al Khali in the United Arab Emirates, also known as the "Empty Quarter," the world’s largest uninterrupted sand desert. Witness breathtaking aerial ...

Set deep in Abu Dhabi’s Rub Al Khali desert, IHG’s Vignette Collection turns its back on the expected. No glitter, no excess. Just wide-open dunes, deep stillness, and experiences designed to ...

Their work focuses on the Rub’ al Khali Desert, or the Empty Quarter, one of the largest continuous sand deserts in the world. Covering nearly 650,000 square kilometers, the Empty Quarter today ...

We needed equipment that could look under the sand." The Arabian Desert has been inhabited since the early Ice Age, with Neolithic and Paleolithic tools found in the southwest Rub' al-Khali.

For centuries, the Rub' al-Khali desert near Saudi Arabia and Dubai — known as the Empty Quarter — was dismissed as a lifeless sea of sand. But now, it's revealing an astonishing secret. In ...

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.

Dromedary camels walk through sand dunes in the Arabian Desert near Margham, Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A new study adds evidence to theories that this region was once a wet, green climate ...

For a long time, the Rub’ al-Khali —known as “The Empty Quarter”—has been synonymous with extreme aridity, endless dunes, and a relentless climate that makes this vast expanse in the southern Arabian ...

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 ...