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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Morocco cosies up to the Trump Administration, the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO) ...

Sahara Desert teemed with life during African Humid Period. Scientists have reconstructed the genetic profile of a population ...