This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

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

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Somewhere in the sands of the Sahara and the sands of time, there might be hidden mummies or artifacts waiting to tell us more about what life was like in the desert before it dried out.

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

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most barren ... it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life. And, according to DNA obtained from the remains of two ...

There are some places in the world that just take your breath away. This can be due to their size or natural beauty. One of those places can be found in Africa and it’s so big that it stretches ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... it was a lush green savannah rich in bodies of water and teeming with life. And, according to DNA obtained from the remains of two individuals who lived ...

A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...