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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...
We've Just Learned More About the Mysterious People of the Green Sahara
About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...
Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans
Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...
Saudi Arabia's vast desert was once a lush, green paradise
A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.
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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, ...
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.
First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...
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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
April 4 (Reuters) - 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 ...
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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage, study says
She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at [email protected] The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago ...