Religious history was made this week on the Arabian Peninsula, with Pope Francis becoming the first pontiff to visit the region. He thrilled nearly 200,000 Catholics by celebrating Mass and made ...

The body of water between Iran and the Arabian peninsula that connects the Gulf ... The UN’s working group found that in a total of 6,000 historical maps dating up to 1890, just a handful ...

A new exhibition featuring the rich, ancient culture of the Arabian Peninsula will open on Sunday ... The extensive and relatively unknown cultural history of the region is told through a display ...

The first-ever papal visit to the Arabian Peninsula, the birthplace of Islam ... by taking strides to improve interfaith dialogue, the historic visit was a chance to cement ties with Islamic ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates — Pope Francis concluded his historic visit to the Arabian Peninsula on Tuesday with the first-ever papal Mass in the United Arab Emirates and a call for his ...

The oldest human footprints in the Arabian Peninsula have been discovered on ... of the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena. “It’s a first.” Petraglia has led ...

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates - The soft hymns of “Hallelujah” boomed from speakers Tuesday as Pope Francis celebrated the first papal Mass in the Arabian Peninsula for about 180,000 people ...

The researchers reconstructed the climate history of the northern Arabian Peninsula from 12.5 to 2.5 million years ago using aridity-sensitive data obtained from rocks from Mesopotamia.

A collection of this week's Witness History and Sporting Witness episodes focusing on the Arabian Peninsula to mark the start of the football World Cup, presented by Max Pearson. Show more Max ...