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

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

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

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

Join presenter, Chioma, for an introduction to the physical geography of the continent of Africa, from the Sahara Desert in ...