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

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

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, ...

Ancient genomes from Libya’s Takarkori shelter have provided new insights into the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome Between ... uncovering lineages barely detectable in the genomes of present-day people,” she writes. “In this context, even ...

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 ...

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

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