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 ...

A 3,500-year-old fortress from ancient Egypt has been discovered, featuring towers, zigzag walls, and ancient military ...

What happens when several hundred archaeologists gather in a “glass box” in the desert? It’s an odd kind of question, but this actually occurred last week when experts from all over the planet ...

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Global deserts in perspective / Mike Smith, Peter Veth, Peter Hiscock and Lynley A. Wallis -- Theoretical shifts in the anthropology of desert hunter-gatherers / Thomas Widlok -- Pleistocene ...

Two weeks ago, the Colorado Desert Archaeology Society hosted its annual Archaeology Day at the Anza-Borrego Desert State ...

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

Puntutjarpa Rockshelter was the first archaeological site excavated in the Australian desert. Dug between 1967 and 1970, the archaeological sequence was originally interpreted as a continuous record ...