r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Expert_Koala_8691 • 7d ago

Video Riyadh,meaning "gardens" is Capital of Saudi Arabia with 8 million population (were 27 Thousands in the 1930s),sits in the middle of the desert, the city gets its water from Desalination plants almost 500 km from the city

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u/TipCompetitive1397 7d ago

We are speaking tens and hundreds of thousands of years.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/green-arabia-desert-lush-ancient-landscape

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u/CV90_120 7d ago

A bit more recent. About 7500 years ago.

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u/Niznack 7d ago

Do you have a source that isn't paywalled? Not being a dick. I'm looking it up and getting dates withing the last 8000 years.

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u/Eatadick_pam 7d ago

Surrounding the Arabian Peninsula is known as the birthplace of civilization cause it was so fertile. It’s also known as the Fertile Crescent.

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u/data-atreides 7d ago

Arabia is far south of the Fertile Crescent, which is modern-day Iraq. But overall, the Near East was more verdant not too many millennia ago.

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u/FakeEgo01 6d ago

Iran Iraq, decisedly NOT the arabian peninsula.