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The World's Biggest Sea of Sand Shows No Trace of Ancient Humans. Here's Why.
Emptier than we ever knew. ScienceAlert .
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The Rub' al Khali, or 'Empty Quarter' , stretches for 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) of endless sand across the Arabian Peninsula. In wetter phases of deep history, the world's biggest sea of sand became at times a more hospitable place.
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