About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

The institution of charoset, as with much of the Seder not mandated by the Bible, derived from classical Greco-Roman ...

The vast desert of the Arabian Peninsula was not always an arid landscape. A recent study reveals that this region was once home to a vast lake and river system. These favorable conditions fostered ...

Cyprus says energy company Chevron will begin a survey of the east Mediterranean seabed this summer to prepare for a pipeline connecting a sizable natural gas deposit to processing facilities in Egypt ...

Khali—known as “The Empty Quarter”—has been synonymous with extreme aridity, endless dunes, and a relentless climate that ...