Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth’s most arid and ... it was home to a mysterious lineage of people isolated from the outside world. Researchers analysed the first genomes from people who ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... Neandertal ancestry and found they have tenfold less Neandertal DNA than people outside Africa, but more than contemporary sub-Saharan Africans.

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... it was home to a mysterious lineage of people isolated from the outside world. Researchers analyzed the first genomes from people who lived in what is ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the United ...

I’ve been to friendly places before, where people are kind and the tradition ... a tiny town in the Sahara Desert. By the time we landed, late at night, we had covered roughly the same distance ...

Lush greenery is as unexpected in the Sahara ... people called the region home. But who exactly were they? Where did they come from? What happened to them when their home became a desert again?

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 ...