A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

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 mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

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

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

Testimony of this ‘green Sahara’ can be found in desert rock art depicting hippopotamuses ... In this context, even small sample numbers can shape our understanding of the past.

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Two mummies recovered from the Takarkori rock shelter indicated the presence of livelihood, as published in the journal ...

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