The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Scratched on the desert's rocks are the memories of a wetter Sahara, when water-dependent creatures such as lions, elephants, and rhinoceroses lived here. A funny thing happened when the most ...

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

A gold rush has broken out in the Sahara in recent years. Thousands of young Africans are digging in the sea of sand with ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

The Sahara desert in its present form is not exactly ... This assertion was backed up by the findings of a rock art survey in eastern Sudan. The results were published in The Journal of Egyptian ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African humid period more ...