Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

In the Mauritanian desert, nomadic herders look for unusual rocks with a dark surface, hoping to find rare meteorites and strike it big.

A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

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

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

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The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...

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 ...

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

But the Green Sahara people carried only trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA, illustrating that they had scant contact with outside populations. Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared ...