New research in northwest Saudi Arabia has identified the existence of a network of previously unknown walled oases.

Researchers confirmed a total of six different fortified walls surrounding a network of oases in the northwest Arabian Desert ...

Arabian Plate, gray tectonic map. Minor tectonic plate, consisting mostly of Arabian Peninsula. Together with the African and Indian plates it is moving northward, colliding with the Eurasian plate.

The world maps of the Greek historians and geographers Hecataeus (472 to 509 BCE) and Herodotus (425-484 BCE) both referred to the Red Sea as the Arabian Gulf.

Here's a map Abu Dhabi is the capital city of the United Arab Emirates and is located on the northeastern part of the Arabian Peninsula, along the coast of the Persian Gulf.

The Dead Sea Transform Fault is the main active tectonic feature in the region that builds the tectonic boundary between the Arabian and African plates. The recent earthquake of 2023 in Türkiye and ...

Map showing the location of site FAY-NE1, Jebel Faya and other Middle Paleolithic sites. Credit: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences (2025). DOI: 10.1007/s12520-025-02164-z ...

US Geological Survey, Arabian American Oil Company (1963) Geologic Map of the Arabian Peninsula. Miscellaneous Geologic Investigations Map I-270A Scale 1 2000,000, United States Geological Survey and ...

Google Maps will change the name of "Gulf of Mexico" to "Gulf of America" once it is officially updated in the U.S. Geographic Names System, Google said in an X post on Monday.

View Claudius Ptolemaeus Sexta Asie Tabula, Ulm, 1486, hand-colouring, a highly important early map of the Arabian Peninsula on artnet. Browse more upcoming and past Decorative Art auction lots.

By David George Hogarth. With illustrations and maps. Decorated cover. Pp. 359. New York: Frederick Stokes & Co. $1.35. Share full article June 4, 1904 The New York Times Archives ...