New Delhi, Sept. 19 -- In the dunes of northern Saudi Arabia, human footprints scattered across a patch of dry ground have been discovered. The discovery of human footprints, if confirmed, would mark the oldest trace of our species yet found in the Arabian Peninsula, which sits at the gateway to early humans' spread around the world, according to a National Geographic report.

Citing a new study published in Science Advances, it reported about the frozen footfalls that preserve a striking snapshot of time some 115,000 years ago. Animals and humans congregated near a shallow lake, perhaps with a shared purpose of slaking thirst and sating hunger.

A team of scientists surveying the region almost ignored them in 2017, but upon further exami...