Sentences with phrase «arabian desert»

The reason I ask is that there is no proxy data available from the Sahara or Arabian desert — the map you provide is modeled entirely as far as those regions are concerned.

During the seventh century, the thriving region had been invaded, initially by a Persian army and later by nomads out of the Arabian Desert.

Thanks to fossil fuels, the naked animal (YOU) could live in the northern hemisphere and the Arabian desert.

That doesn't mean that a 6 C rise wouldn't cause immense problems, but it wouldn't make most of the planet unihabitable for a species that can live in climes ranging from the Arctic to the Arabian desert.

We see the desolate traces of the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, jerry - built bus stops marooned in the Armenian wilderness and, most fascinatingly of all, the stations of the defunct Hejaz railway line in the Saudi Arabian desert, looking for all the world like ancient mausolea or charnel houses.

Set in Arabian desert during WWI.

To the south, past the burning Italian coast, men charge over the sand dunes of the Arabian Desert, armed to the teeth with the most powerful weaponry the world has ever seen.

Dubai is a dynamic, modern metropolis where the beautiful landscapes of the Arabian Desert meet the sparkling beaches of the Persian Gulf.

Best of Dubai & Egypt (12 days) Dubai, Arabian Desert, Cairo & the Pyramids, Abu Simbel, luxury Nile River cruise

4x4 Dubai Desert Safari (Afternoon on Day 1 or Day 2 — your choice): In the afternoon, leave your central Dubai hotel and head to the heart of the Arabian Desert by luxury 4x4 jeep.

Celebrate your honeymoon in complete privacy with the endless views of the Arabian desert from your private pool and experience two desert activities.

Next day early afternoon head into the Arabian Desert on a 4x4 safari to visit a camel farm, try sand - boarding, and enjoy a sunset barbecue meal with live music and dancing.

Experience a day trip out into the Arabian Desert, venture up the Burj Khalifa tower in Dubai, or head down to the Palm Jumeirah for cocktails and watersports: we have a range of United Arab Emirates hotels to suit you.

So what is the Arabian Desert really like?

Although most of the Arabian Desert is in Saudi Arabia, it also extends to include Jordan, Iraq, Kuwait, Oman, UAE, Yemen and Qatar.

The Arabian Desert covers an area of approximately 900,000 sq. mi.

The very name Arabian Desert evokes a sense of mystery and romance.

Pulling into the grand porte - cochere, it soon became clear that this was not only reminiscent of the palace in my Arabian desert dreams but it was actually designed to embody the look and feel of one....

You can't leave Dubai without visiting the Arabian Desert.

Dubai is a city of superlatives, its glittering skyline overlooking the Persian Gulf and backed by the undulating dunes of the Arabian desert.

The introduction of the techniques of copper - working may have stimulated the Egyptians to gain control of Sinai and the Arabian desert where in historical times their main ore deposits were mined.

Rover Goes Long While certain members of the Range Rover team are out setting speed records in the Arabian Desert and on Pikes Peak, the British company hasn't forgotten the luxury side of its business.

Even from the passenger seat during hot - weather testing in the Arabian desert, it wasn't difficult to see the engineers» point: people are going to be talking about this engine for some considerable time.

Our work with teachers and students has demonstrated that an inner - city classroom in Philadelphia can feel as connected to traversing the Arabian desert by camel as they do to the cross-town bus.

UAE is one of the countries within the Arabian Desert, so of course a visit there wouldn't be complete without a desert safari.

If you are not eating right, not exercising right, and not correctly managing other important lifestyle changes that could be instructing your body to hold onto your man boobs, then just using turmeric will be like adding a cup of water to the Arabian desert.

A recent study published in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology in November 2017 describes recently discovered rock carvings in the Shuwaymis region of the northwestern Saudi Arabian desert, illustrating prehistoric hunting practices, using dogs as assistants.

This map shows Egypt (orange, lower left) in North Africa and its connections to the Middle East through Babylon (center yellow) and the Arabian Desert (white).

In reality, on - the - ground investigations are beginning to show that wet and dry phases may show north - to - south timing differences across the Levant and the Syro - Arabian Desert, as well as latitudinal variations of wet conditions between basins, implying more complicated demographic processes of expansion, contraction and extinction [64].

For me, burgeoning Doha, Qatar, on the Persian Gulf beside the punishing Arabian Desert, evoked humankind's continuing hope for a better future against the harsh realities we are grappling with today.

That's what Huw Groucutt, a paleoarchaeologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and his team were looking for when they began excavating sites in the Arabian Desert more than 10 years ago.

For more than a decade, a team of archaeologists and anthropologists scoured the Arabian Desert for evidence that some of the earliest members of our species once traversed these formerly green lands.

A single bone found in the Saudi Arabian desert is at least 85,000 years old, and may shed light on the route early humans took out of Africa

We know from evidence gathered all over the productive lands around the fast Arabian desert (long ago the historian J. H. Breasted designated this area as the Fertile Crescent) of a widespread eruption of desert peoples, Semitic nomads, into the more sedentary areas.

If it were not for the Turks, Islam would have been pushed back into the Arabian desert by the unscrupulous and fanatic invaders from Europe.

For the northward thrust of the Arabian desert decreed that the highways of the nations should wind their ways, not direct across Arabia, but by the longer route around the Fertile Crescent.

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

The hot, dry chamsin, starting from the Arabian desert, had blown across the Judean waste, baking the stones of the city.

The American - made movie, it turns out, was hardly an innocent Arabian Desert action flick.

The Holy Quran is all about giving simplified examples for the brains of that time, and addressed to illiterate Nomadic Beduins of the dry Arabian desert to understand and they have managed to do understand it and achieved miraculously for centuries in creating a multinational Islamic communities that has contributed so much to today's knowledge and science.

But this location also meant that a great caravan route, the only feasible way to get past the Arabian desert, lay across her territory.

11:8, A.R.V.) Situated to the south of the crescent, bounded by Palestine toward the sea and the Tigris - Euphrates Valley on the north and east, is the Arabian Desert.

This zone has formed the Kalahari, Sahara and Arabian deserts — deserts that are likely to all migrate in pole - ward direction, eating away at ecosystems and agricultural productivity in their paths.

Not exact matches

MIDDLE EAST 2014 SUPPLEMENT Visitors to the Middle East can not help but be awed by the majestic skylines of the metropolises that have sprung from the desert sands along the Arabian Gulf.

Some scholars believe that South Arabian merchants involved in the incense trade used camels to transport their goods northward through the desert, heading to such areas as Egypt and Syria and thereby introducing camels to these areas.

Osama is one name of the Lions, Lived on Deserts and on the tip of the Mountain and now buried as an Ocean Sailor in to the Arabian Gulf..

Moses as well was Egyptian and on the exudes him and his people were turned to wander the deserts... those all from the area are descendants of those that were moving for centuries between reigns surrounding the area and they have every right for the holy land as any one else... Just remember that the ottoman army & leaders were all brought on their childhood from East Europian countries and then they got them educated and trained to lead the empire interests... So the people whom you call wanderers are decedents of such as those and Arabs of the Arabian Penisuler whom are known to trade between areas in what is called the Summer and Winter trade movement...

The chief characteristics of that environment have been the unstable relations between a settled and a nomadic society, the constant interpenetration of those two societies, the extension of those conditions northward into the desert areas between Syria and Iraq, and finally, the international relations of the Arabian fringes of the peninsula with the outside world and the transpeninsular traffic created by those fringe areas.

These plants grow in the Sinai desert, the Arabian Peninsula and the deserts of North Africa.

Desert locusts are a major pest on numerous crops and pastures throughout a vast area of almost 30 million km2 covering Africa north of the equator, the Near East, the Arabian Peninsula and the Indian subcontinent.