The latest genetic studies reveal that 7,000 years ago, the Sahara was home to a unique group of people. This community lived ...

A groundbreaking discovery reveals a unique group of people who thrived in the once-lush Sahara.

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 ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

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.

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

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

Unusual structures of unknown origin discovered in desert rocks have been documented in a new study. In the desert regions of ...

Rusting pipes in a barren field and unpaid workers are what remain after a U.S. company promised to turn a huge piece of land ...

Over the last 30 years one of the very cool trends in the international music scene is the growing popularity of West African “desert blues”: music from the Sahel region that draws on some of the same ...

Striking out from Agadez, Niger, Etran de L’Aïr (henceforth, EDL) consist of three brothers and a cousin: bassist Abdoulaye ...