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

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

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

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, ...

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

Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...

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

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 ...

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