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

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.

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...

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

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 ...

Every year, from December to April, the Harmattan sweeps across Africa. This cool, dry and dust-laden wind gets its name from ...

West African neighbours Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger have announced a new 0.5% levy on imported goods as they seek to fund a ...

The rugged and beautiful Greek island of Lemnos is home to a desert in the Gomati area, to the island's north.