Children Of The Seven Sands: The History of the United Arab Emirates

One of the world's youngest nations, the United Arab Emirates was founded based on a handshake between two men meeting in a tent in the desert between Abu Dhabi and Dubai in 1968. Yet its human history stretches back to the emergence of anatomically modern humans from Africa, a story of 130,000 years of humankind's survival in one of the world's harshest environments.

Thanks to modern archaeological and historical research, we can now trace the Emirates' story back to the Garden of Eden, the...