The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to China or the United ...

The Sahara Desert has not always been the arid ... by an unusually wet interval called the African Humid Period. People roamed this green landscape for thousands of years before it was again ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and ... great majority of people practicing ...

Among them was a mysterious people ... of the Sahara and the sands of time, there might be hidden mummies or artifacts waiting to tell us more about what life was like in the desert before it ...

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 ...

A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

Testimony of this ‘green Sahara’ can be found in desert rock art depicting hippopotamuses and giraffes (Fig. 1), and in archaeological sites showing that people fished, hunted and herded ...