Learn more about the carvings of camels, gazelles, and ibexes that helped humans thrive in the Nefud Desert around 2,000 years earlier than traditionally thought.

The drawings—the oldest dated monumental rock art in Arabia—are the firmest evidence that humans lived there during a dry period about 12,000 years ago.

Newly discovered prehistoric artwork suggests how a pioneering sect of desert nomads, unknown to history until now, carved out an existence about 12,000 years ago in the harsh environment of northern ...

By Will Dunham (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 ...

New findings highlight the pioneering role of human groups who lived in the interior of northern Arabia shortly after the hyper-arid conditions of the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), guided by the return ...