at Liwa oasis on the northern tip of the Empty Quarter, and near the border between Abu Dhabi and Saudi Arabia. It's a place where palm trees have grown and dates have been cultivated for 5,000 years.

6 Sand, salt and sabkhah - for the wilderness explorer South of Liwa Oasis, the Rub’ al Khali desert (The Empty Quarter) extends for thousands of miles into Saudi Arabia: a rolling sea of sand ...

Archaeologists began working at the Khaybar Oasis, in western Saudi Arabia, in 2020 after satellite imagery suggested a “walled” settlement may have once existed there, McClatchy News reported ...