The Ḥarrat al-Shām ( Arabic : حَرَّة ٱلشَّام ), also known as the Harrat al-Harra or Harrat al-Shaba , and colloquially as the Black Desert in English, is a region of rocky, basaltic desert straddling southern Syrian region and the northern Arabian Peninsula . It covers an area of some 40,000 km (15,000 sq mi) in the modern-day Syrian Arab Republic , Jordan , Israel and Saudi Arabia . Vegetation is characteristically open acacia shrubland with patches of juniper at higher altitudes.
5-565: Black Desert may refer to: a desert: Harrat al-Shamah , a region of the Syrian Desert Black Rock Desert , a semi-arid region in Nevada Black Desert , a desert in western Egypt a game: Black Desert Online , a multiplayer online role-playing game See also [ edit ] Walterinnesia aegyptia , the black desert cobra Topics referred to by
10-472: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Harrat al-Shamah The Harrat has been occupied by humans since at least the Late Epipalaeolithic ( c. 12,500–9500 BCE ). One of the earliest known sites is Shubayqa 1 (occupied c. 12,600–10,000 BCE ), a Natufian site where archaeologists have discovered the remains of
15-523: The late Pleistocene and the Holocene . It is known to have erupted in historic times. The Jabal al-Druze , al-Safa and Dirat al-Tulul volcanic fields, among others, form the northern and Syrian part of the ḥarra . The Saudi Arabian portion of the Harrat Ash Shamah volcanic field extends across a 210 km (130 miles)-long, roughly 75 km (47 miles)-wide northwest-southeast-trending area on
20-618: The oldest known bread . The Harrat comprises volcanic fields formed by tectonic activity from the Oligocene through to the Quaternary . It is the largest of several volcanic fields on the Arabian Plate , containing more than 800 volcanic cones and around 140 dikes . Activity began during the Miocene ; an earlier eruptive stage at the southeastern end of the volcanic field, occurred during
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