Previously, it was thought that until a few hundred thousand years ago, the Arabian Peninsula occupied the center of an impenetrable desert barrier across North Africa and the Middle East.

Researchers analyzed over a hundred archaeological sites and environmental data to understand how early humans adapted to ...

Almost all bones will not be preserved, and there’s nothing special about the finger bone in terms of how hard it is. It just ...

Today, all non-Africans are known to have descended from a small group of people that ventured into Eurasia around 50,000 ...

Before the 'Out of Africa' migration that led our ancestors into Eurasia and beyond, human populations learned to adapt to new and challenging ...

From Africa’s Namib to South America’s Atacama, explore the world’s most iconic deserts—where silence roars and dunes dance.

One of the driest places on Earth – the Saharo-Arabian Desert ... further north in the summer seasons than we see today. “Arabia has traditionally been overlooked in Africa-Eurasia dispersals ...

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse ... events—possibly fed by monsoons from Africa and India—were strong enough to move sediments ...

(Paul Breeze/The Green Arabia Project) (CN) — One of the largest biogeographic barriers on Earth, the Saharo-Arabian Desert currently limits animal movement and divides Africa and Eurasia. For 8 ...