(Reuters) -About 12,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers who inhabited a swathe of Arabian desert carved life-sized images of camels and other animals on sandstone cliffs and boulders, using rock art to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A new paper, still in pre-print, unveils the discovery of seven mummified, 4,000-year-old cheetahs in a Saudi Arabian cave.

The dry deserts of north-eastern Saudi Arabia were once wet enough to host vibrant communities of animals – and researchers have just found evidence that ancient hominins lived there too. “This paper ...

Archaeologists have found evidence of human habitation within lava tubes for the first time, in the deserts of northern Saudi Arabia. Lava tubes are caves that form during a volcanic eruption. The ...

The petroglyphs were discovered in prominently visible locations on cliff sides and boulder facades.(all photos via Nature Communications per CC BY 4.0) A trove of life-sized animal rock engravings ...

AlULA, Saudi Arabia -- Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway in Saudi Arabia, lined with ancient tombs. Aerial surveys and satellite images helped Australian researchers make the ...

Faysal Bibi is a senior scientist at the Natural History Museum – Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, 10115 Berlin, Germany. Read the paper: Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over ...

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 -- ...

A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient knowledge systems behind therapeutic and psychoactive plant use in ancient Arabia. A new study uses metabolic profiling to uncover ancient ...

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 ...