When you’ve walked through the rose-red walls of Petra, it’s easy to think you’ve seen all there is to know about the ...

A shot of a fraternal society's gathering place-once used for socialising, much like a modern-day Majlis in Saudi c ...

National Geographic’s latest documentary, ‘Lost Treasures of Arabia: The Nabataean Kingdom’, invites audiences to rediscover a civilization that mastered the desert and defied empires.The documentary ...

A new analysis of burners found in Qurayyah reveals that 2,700 years ago, smoke from Peganum harmala was inhaled.

A remarkable archaeological discovery on Sir Bani Yas Island in Abu Dhabi is transforming historians’ understanding of how ...

Nicholas Clapp, a documentary filmmaker and adventurer who was called “a real-life Indiana Jones” for his consuming but inconclusive quest to find a lost city of ancient Arabia known as ...

Eivind Heldaas Seland, Ancient South Arabia: trade and strategies of state control as seen in the "Periplus Maris Erythraei", Proceedings of the Seminar for Arabian Studies, Vol. 35, Papers from the ...

The ancient world’s march toward urbanization was uneven. While Mesopotamia was sprouting city-states along the Tigris and Euphrates rivers and building massive monuments like the Ziggurat of Ur (in ...