A combination of European daring and Middle Eastern seafaring skill brought Vasco da Gama's fleet safely across the Indian Ocean.

No other city can boast a span of 2,600 years as a metropolis and a location looking out over two continents and two seas.

All the know-how of movie making is called into play when camera crews begin to shoot an Aramco documentary film.

For Aramco, 1961 was a year of goals met—and surpassed.