Some of the recent advances in the quest to catch a whiff of history are featured in the new book Scents of Arabia: ...

Ancient sources describe the legendary Arabian city of Gehrra as unmatched in wealth and importance. Located in the northeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, the city attained mythical status in the ...

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, ...

This ‘NOVA’ installment explores the possible purposes of strange stone formations found in the Arabian Peninsula.

At its peak, one ancient lake covered about 1,100 square kilometers and reached a depth of 42 meters, nearly twice the size of Switzerland’s Lake Geneva. “The lake is estimated to have been vast, ...

Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 ...

Huw Groucutt passes rolling sand dunes as far as his eye can see when traveling to archaeological sites in the northern Arabian Peninsula. But the same desert regions were once intermittently lush and ...

Over 1,600 mysterious stone structures dot Saudi Arabia’s arid landscape. They have managed to puzzle scholars for decades. Now, after a recent excavation, researchers have discovered the likely ...

Introduction / Martin Huth and Peter G. van Alfen -- Arabian coinage : background and common aspects -- The Arabian Peninsula, 600 BCE to 600 CE : introduction : sources and geography / D.T. Potts -- ...

Across Oman’s mountains, wadis and coasts, the scents of rose and frankincense tell a tale that bridges the country’s past ...

A new paper, still in pre-print, unveils the discovery of seven mummified, 4,000-year-old cheetahs in a Saudi Arabian cave. Ancient cultures like the Egyptians sometimes mummified cheetahs, but these ...