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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage, study says
Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...
The world's biggest desert that covers 11 countries where temperatures drop to -9C
The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of endless sand dunes and barren rock comes to mind. That’s largely the ...
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DNA From 7,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveals Lost Society From Sahara
About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...
7000 Years Old Genome Analysis Unveiled Lush Green Habitat of Sahara Desert
Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...
50,000-year-old unknown human lineage yields genetic clues to Sahara’s earliest people
According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...
Scientific earthquake after discovering in the Sahara Desert 7,000-year-old mummies with different DNA to ours
Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...
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Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage
Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of ...