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 ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

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

Testimony of this ‘green Sahara’ can be found in desert rock art depicting hippopotamuses and giraffes (Fig. 1), and in archaeological sites showing that people fished, hunted and herded ...

Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ...