Monumental Animal Art Reveals People in 'Uninhabitable' Arabia 12,000 Years Ago
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5 Comments
grue@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 341d
[X] doubt
https://www.earth.com/news/ancient-arabia-was-once-green-and-lush-with-rivers-lakes-and-grasslands/
tinycarnivoroussheep@midwest.social · 1 pts · 337d
The Sahara has done it, why not Arabia?
scintilla@crust.piefed.social · 5 pts · 341d
Thats super cool. Is there a link to view the non drawn over images? I can kinda make out it's carved into the rock on the first one but the rest are kinda hard to parse the actual carvings in.
Kraiden@piefed.social · 3 pts · 340d
Oh right! Yeah, makes sense they'd emphasize the drawings so people could see the images... my dumb ass was sitting here thinking it was fake, because no way those colours would still be that vivid after 12 thousand years... I need another coffee clearly
TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz · 3 pts · 340d
OP provided a link to a press article https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2025-09-30/ty-article-magazine/monumental-animal-art-reveals-people-in-uninhabitable-arabia-12-000-years-ago/00000199-997e-df33-a5dd-9d7f814c0000
Original publication: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-025-63417-y