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

SpaceX, ULA, and Blue Origin secured $13.5 billion in Pentagon contracts, enhancing space missions. The Sahara Desert, once ...

This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

Building relationships with the region, rather than transactional neocolonialism, is the best route for strengthening the ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

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 ...

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

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 ...