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

More than 7,000 years ago, during the African Humid Period, the Sahara was lush and green. A human population lived […] ...

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Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

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

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 researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...

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

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

Sahara Desert ... they remained genetically isolated despite practicing animal husbandry - a cultural innovation that originated outside Africa," Krause said. Archeological evidence indicates ...