Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

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

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

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, ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn’t mean it’s free of that modern scourge of the environment — ...

This significant discovery has illuminated the Sahara Desert in our quest to find our human origins ... Furthermore, the ...

Sahara Desert into a vast savannah, where both people and animals lived in great numbers. Today we still know very little about the people who once lived here, but a series of recent discoveries might ...

What happened to them when their home became a desert again? All this has long ... suggesting a clearer origin for the Green Sahara people. During the African Humid Period (AHP) the Sahara was ...

Most people here are nomadic herders who spend part of the year moving through the desert with their animals. Few have an internet connection. In 2011, nomads in neighboring Morocco reported ...

But the Green Sahara people carried only trace amounts of Neanderthal ... years ago when the African Humid Period ended and the desert returned, traces of their ancestry persist among various ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... it was home to a mysterious lineage of people isolated from the outside world. Researchers analyzed the first genomes from people who lived in what is ...