Researchers use AI to unearth a 5,000-year-old civilization beneath the world’s largest desert. But how?

For centuries, the vast Rub al-Khali—better known as the “Empty Quarter”—has remained an enigma, hiding whatever traces of history may have once flourished beneath its endless dunes. But now, thanks to cutting-edge artificial intelligence and satellite imaging, researchers have made a stunning discovery: evidence of a 5,000-year-old civilization buried beneath the world’s largest continuous sand desert.

The Breakthrough That Changed Everything

A team from Khalifa University in Abu Dhabi has developed a groundbreaking machine-learning algorithm…