Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Etchings of camels and other animals found on sandstone walls in the Saudi Arabian desert seem to suggest ancient migration routes to water. During ...

This ‘NOVA’ installment explores the possible purposes of strange stone formations found in the Arabian Peninsula.

The arid deserts of north Arabian Arabia do not seem to be the kind of climate early humans would have loved, but new finds ...

Newly found engravings of animals on rock outcrops in Saudi Arabia’s Nefud desert show nomads lived there thousands of years ago.

Hundreds of life-sized animal petroglyphs suggest that the notoriously arid region was populated around 12,000 years ago, ...

Physical traces of humans living in the Arabian Desert are scarce between 25,000 to 10,000 years ago. They left few ruins, barely any bones, and only a small scattering of their possessions. However, ...

Premieres Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025 at 9 p.m. on KPBS TV / KPBS+. Deep in the Arabian Desert lie thousands of enigmatic stone megastructures whose true form is visible only from the sky. Follow ...

Three newly discovered sites filled with art and stone tools have pushed back the date of when humans returned to Arabia after the last ice age.

During the late stages of the last ice age, the Arabian Desert wasn't always the dry expanse you know today. In fact, recent geological and climate research has revealed a very different past—one ...

The rock art was used to mark the location of water sources in an illustration of how ancient people tackled some of Earth’s most inhospitable environs.

The Dream of the Desert luxury train is part of Saudi Arabian government efforts to boost tourism in the country as it eyes ...

Limbo' director Ben Sharrock will helm the feature, about two strangers whose lives collide during storm in the desert.