Today the deserts of the Arabian peninsula are inhospitable - but 100,000 years ago the area was full of animals and ancient ...

Dr. Monika Badura and her colleagues have published a study analyzing an isolated burial found in the Bayuda Desert in the journal Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa. The discovery, made at ...

Once a remote desert expanse, AlUla in Saudi Arabia is now a global heritage tourism hotspot. Its ancient Nabataean tombs and ...

A 4,000-year-old burial in Sudan’s Bayuda Desert reveals rare Kerma-era rituals, grave goods, and clues to a forgotten Nile ...

A rare example of a sun hat from late Roman Egypt that was stitched together from fabrics in five colors.

"Early-life malnutrition has been consistently associated with reduced brain volume and cognitive impairments, highlighting the critical importance of adequate energy and nutrient intake during ...

A Portuguese ship from 1533 was found buried in Namibia's Namib Desert in 2008. It contained over 2,000 gold coins, ivory, ...

When we say a place is “driest,” we generally mean it receives very little precipitation (rain or snow), often much less than ...

Two of the world’s most remarkable open-air heritage destinations, AlUla in north-west Saudi Arabia and Pompeii in southern ...

In Namibia’s remote Sperrgebiet—a name that translates from German as “forbidden zone”—miners looking for diamonds stumbled ...

The National Museum in Damascus is one of the most significant cultural institutions in the Middle East. Its extensive ...

In an astonishing archaeological discovery, miners in the remote Sperrgebiet region in Namibia found the wreckage of a 16th ...