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The Black Desert offers visitors millions of years of natural and human history – but this may all change with plans to build a new capital city on the desert's edge.

Evidence of ancient shark hunting practices is uncovered in Israel with the discovery of a 6,000-year-old copper hook designed to catch huge fish or sharks.

At the Azraq Oasis, located in the Eastern Desert of Jordan, late Middle to early Late Pleistocene wetland deposits contain abundant Lower Palaeolithic stone tools and faunal remains. Focusing on the southern portion of the Azraq Oasis, known as the Shishan Marsh, this study aims to establish the palaeoecological context of this palaeowetland and associated hominin occupations (c. 300–120 ka) using phytoliths and other biogenic silica microfossils. Phytoliths, diatoms, and sponge spicules were...

Discovered in a crumbling desert castle in Jordan, a fresco known as the Six Kings of the Earth provides a curious glimpse into the medieval Islamic world.