Most scientists agree modern humans developed in Africa, more than 200,000 years ago, and that a great human diaspora across much of the rest of the world occurred between perhaps 60,000 and 50,000 ...

AlULA, Saudi Arabia -- Archaeologists have discovered a 4,500-year-old highway in Saudi Arabia, lined with ancient tombs. Aerial surveys and satellite images helped Australian researchers make the ...

Today, the Arabian Gulf is home to manatee-like marine mammals called dugongs that shape the seafloor as they graze on seagrasses. A newly described fossil site in Qatar reveals that ancient sea cows ...

Hidden deep in the northern Arabian desert within a valley of large rocks is a 460-foot-long rectangular monument. Dating to the Neolithic era, the sandstone structure — known as a mustatil — is ...

A lava tube in Saudi Arabia served as shelter to ancient humans for over 7,000 years, archaeologists have said in a new study. While previous research established that Northern Arabia was a dynamic ...