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

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

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 ...

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

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

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

Discovery of a Unique Group of People Who Thrived in the Once-Lush Sahara Reveals Secrets of Early Human Evolution - ...

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, ...

Testimony of this ‘green Sahara’ can be found in desert rock art depicting ... This is remarkable preservation; most ancient African genomes come from people who lived in the past 2,000 ...