An Nafud not include entering the Nafud, as is depicted in the film "Lawrence of Arabia". The discovery of an 85,000-year-old fossilised human finger in An Nafud in 2016 by Dr Mathieu Duval of Griffith University provided the earliest evidence of modern humans outside Africa and the Levant. An Nafud An Nafud or Al-Nefud or The Nefud () is a desert in the northern part of the Arabian Peninsula at , occupying a great oval depression. It is long and wide, with an area of . The Nafud is an erg, a desert region located in the north-central Saudi Arabia. Noted for
Discoveries in the Judaean Desert of texts, but only as a fair remark to an otherwise admirable publication. Knohl reviewed "Discoveries in the Judaean Desert", Volume 10: "Qumran Cave 4, V. Miqṣat Ma῾ase ha-Torah". He complimented the work of the editors, Strugnell and Qimron, but suggested a different dating for the scroll than the dating stated by the authors. Discoveries in the Judaean Desert Discoveries in the Judaean Desert (or DJD) is the official, 40-volume, publication series that serves as the "editio princeps" for the Dead Sea Scrolls. It is published by Oxford University Press. The international team of scholars, involved in the publishing project,