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

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

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

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

South Africa’s banking system could come under scrutiny and the country may attract targeted sanctions if it does not follow the US lead ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

Talks to resolve the conflict over Western Sahara should take place on the sole basis of a Moroccan plan that would give the ...

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African humid period more than 7,000 years ago ...