Posts Tagged ‘arabian’

Recent Saudi Arabian, Russian supply cuts reflect demand concerns

The recent decision by Saudi Arabia and Russia to extend existing crude oil supply cuts did not have the expected effect on prices, but analysts said the limited increase in prices reflects demand-based worries by investors, reports Anadolu Agency. Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest exporter of crude oil, announced its intention Monday to unilaterally extend […]

Undocumented Roman Army Camps Indicate Military Manoeuvres in the Arabian Desert

Using this global aerial imaging program as a tool of discovery, last year archaeologists from the University of Oxford identified the ruins of three fortified Roman army camps, which were likely built around the year 100 AD. Read more Section:  News History & Archaeology Ancient Places Asia Read Later  Source

Iranian Quran reciter Yunes Shahmoradi tops at Saudi Arabian competition

TEHRAN – Iranian Quran reciter Yunes Shahmoradi has taken first place in the recitation category at the Otr Elkalam International Competition, which is organized in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Source

Iran calls on Iraq to apologise over ‘Arabian Gulf’ Cup 

Iran has objected to Iraq's reference to the Persian Gulf as the "Arabian Gulf", as it hosts the regional football tournament, the Arabian Gulf Cup in the southern city of Basra. On Saturday, a day after the 25th Gulf Cup kicked off, the Iranian football federation announced that they will be lodging a protest to […]

Iran to protest FIFA for using ‘Arabian Gulf Cup’ name

TEHRAN – The Islamic Republic of Iran Football Federation (IRIFF) will protest FIFA for using the ‘Arabian Gulf Cup’ for the tournament. Source

Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why

Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why Humans12 December 2022By Carly Cassella   Aerial view of a kite in the Khaybar area of north-west Saudi Arabia. New archaeological findings on ‘kites’ show the ingenuity and perhaps collaborative nature of the region’s peoples in the past. (Diaa Albukaai and Kévin Guadagnini, […]

Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why

Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why Humans12 December 2022By Carly Cassella   Aerial view of a kite in the Khaybar area of north-west Saudi Arabia. New archaeological findings on ‘kites’ show the ingenuity and perhaps collaborative nature of the region’s peoples in the past. (Diaa Albukaai and Kévin Guadagnini, […]

Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why

Mysterious Patterns Span The Arabian Desert, And We May Finally Know Why Humans12 December 2022By Carly Cassella   Aerial view of a kite in the Khaybar area of north-west Saudi Arabia. New archaeological findings on ‘kites’ show the ingenuity and perhaps collaborative nature of the region’s peoples in the past. (Diaa Albukaai and Kévin Guadagnini, […]

Pentagon: Just FYI, We Have a Nuclear Armed Submarine in the Arabian Sea

The Pentagon just let everyone know that it’s got a nuclear armed submarine in the Arabian Sea, for no particularly stated reason. Just in case you were curious. The movements of nuclear submarines are usually secret, but U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM), the part of the Pentagon that oversees operations in the Middle East, just tweeted […]

Humans Were Mummified into Honey Candy in Arabian Medical Practice

While ancient history boasts a host of grisly medical recipes, one of the most intriguing and elaborate was the mellified man, a human being mummified into honey candy. Read more Section:  News Weird Facts Read Later  Source

The Arabian Messiah

“At the core of this whole Messianic culture is ancient Arabian/tribal tradition intimately interwoven with pagan myths”

New Study Reveals Ancient Arabian Peninsula Funerary Avenues Network

The modern fascination with highways is not as modern as it seems. Throughout history, there have been examples of building and constructing routes, particularly along important trading routes linking far off settlements. All ancient empires had these “highways.” Now a new discovery has been made along these lines in Saudi Arabia’s Arabian Peninsula in which […]

Arabian Peninsula Was a Hotbed of Hominin Cultures 400,000 Years Ago

Three things that we’ve heard before ad nauseam – climate change, human migration, and Africa being the cradle of modern humans. Combining all of them together is a fascinating new study which shows that prehistoric climate change repeatedly affected and caused pockets of human migration into the Arabian Peninsula over the last 400,000 years. Exploring […]

Dubai’s Arabian Travel Market marks the start of a tourism comeback

Dubai has hosted one of the first in-person travel industry events since the pandemic began. The Arabian Travel Market had over 11 000 attendees who were keen to highlight that the industry is ready to recover from the impact of COVID-19 as soon as borders reopen. In 2020, the size of the global travel and […]

The Trials And Tribulations Of Arabian Warrior Queens

In the 12th century BC, the collapse of the complex state system in the Near East led to the rise of ethnic group cohesion that had previously been largely fragmented. These ethnic groups morphed into political units which were mostly organized along ethnic‐tribal lines. They included the Phrygians, Hebrews, Aramaeans and the Arabs. The large-scale […]

Saudi Arabian Dog Remains Are A Shocking Find

We’ll never get tired of hearing that dogs are a man’s best friend. What is true of domesticated dogs today, has been a socio-cultural and historical phenomenon developed over thousands of years, 15,000 years or so to be more precise. Thanks to a team of researchers from the University of Western Australia, Perth and the […]

A prehistoric Saudi Arabian loved a dog 6,000 years ago

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Petra’s Saudi Arabian Sister City, Hegra, Opens to the Public

The deserts of Saudi Arabia may look desolate, but they hold many important archaeological sites. One of the most important of these is the vast archaeological site at Hegra which has been classified a UNESCO World Heritage site . For the first time, the public can visit the site without restrictions and view the remains […]

U.S. Space Force deploys to vast new frontier: Arabian Desert

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Top of the world: First ever all-woman Euro-Arabian ski team reaches North Pole

Seven women from Cyprus, Kuwait, Oman and Qatar became the first people from their countries to traverse the 82km (51 miles) distance to reach the northernmost part of the world. The expedition project was launched by British polar explorer Felicity Aston as part of a bid to build dialogue and understanding between Western and Arab […]

‘Untouchable’ Saudi Arabian Capital Rocked By Ballistic Missile Strikes

Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh was rocked last night by a series of surface-to-surface ballistic missiles launched by the Houthi-allied Yemeni military in retaliation for the relentless and devastating Saudi incursions into their country. At least one person has been killed after Yemen launched the missile attack on the Saudi capital, according to a military spokesman. Debris […]

Cargo ship sinks in Arabian Sea en route from UAE, 20 sailors rescued (PHOTOS)

Local fishermen came to the aid of the crew after the ship went down in the Arabian Sea near Lakabi, a town nearly 400 miles (650km) southwest of the sultanate’s capital of Muscat. The ship, registered in Tanzania, was travelling from Sharjah in the UAE. The Royal Oman Police (ROP) posted pictures of the rescue […]

Arabian ‘Game of Thrones’: The inside story on the House of Saud

     Just when geopolitical practitioners were betting on regime change in Qatar – orchestrated by a desperate House of Saud – regime change ended up happening in Riyadh, orchestrated by Warrior Prince, Destroyer of Yemen and Blockader of Qatar, Mohammad bin Salman (MBS). Considering the impenetrability of that desert petrodollar family oligarchy impersonating a nation […]

15% decline in Internet costs

Iran’s Communications Regulatory Authority Committee has released further details on new Internet prices. During a session held on Saturday night, the committee—headed by Minister of Communications and Information Technology Mahmoud Vaezi—met to decide on a number of issues, including new Internet tariffs, Mehr News Agency reported. The committee passed a number of enactments, one of […]

Beware of Bears and Dragons in Their Own Backyards

BRIAN CLOUGHLEY | 03.03.2016 | WORLD At the UN General Assembly in September last year President Obama declared without a trace of irony that «History is littered with the failure of false prophets and fallen empires, who believed that might always makes right, and that will continue to be the case. You can count on that». A week […]

Surreal: The West mourns death of Al Qaeda collaborator in Damascus airstrike

     Jaysh al-Islam is a stalwart ally of US State Department-listed terrorist organization al-Nusra, though one would never suspect as much reading weepy Western eulogies over the terrorist organization leader’s death. The commander of terrorist organization and Al Qaeda affiliate Jaysh al-Islam (the Army of Islam), “Sheikh” Zahran Alloush, was killed in a Syrian airstrike […]

Some like it hot: Moth and butterfly species respond differently to climate change

Morpho didius – Museum specimen. Credit: Wikipedia New research led by ecologists at the University of York shows that certain species of moths and butterflies are becoming more common, and others rarer, as species differ in how they respond to climate change. Collaborating with the Natural Environment Research Council’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, the […]

Iraqi Air Force Destroys ISIS Convoy – Veterans Today

Men in Black: Lawyers protest mass surveillance in Berlin (VIDEO)

Screenshot from Ruptly video More than 300 protesters gathered in front of the German Chancellery to mark the upcoming second anniversary of Edward Snowden’s leak of the NSA secret intelligence data that removed the veils from the eyes of the public. Berlin saw a crowd of several hundred lawyers all dressed in black robes on […]

U.S. assembling secret drone bases in Africa, Arabian Peninsula

  Craig Whitlock and Greg Miller The Washington Post September 21, 2011 The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of secret drone bases for counterterrorism operations in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula as part of a newly aggressive campaign to attack al-Qaeda affiliates in Somalia and Yemen, U.S. officials said. One of […]

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