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

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

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

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, ...

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

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

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

South Africa’s banking system could come under scrutiny and the country may attract targeted sanctions if it does not follow ...

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 ...

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