Archaeologists have identified 120,000-year-old human footprints at the ancient lake site of Alathar in the Nefud Desert, ...
There is no greater symbol of thriving in the desert than the camel. The hunter-gatherers who roamed the Nefud Desert in Saudi Arabia thousands of years ago certainly thought so. High up on desert ...
RIYADH — Stability prevailed in central Arabia when the Banu Hanifa tribe migrated from Hijaz and settled along Wadi Hanifa under the leadership of Ubayd bin Tha’labah, who chose Hajr Al-Yamamah as a ...
Saudi Arabia last week unveiled a collection of archaeological artifacts and structures — discovered during excavations in the eastern part of the country — part of the kingdom’s broader efforts to ...
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 mark the ...