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

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

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, ...

A new study reconstructing the Arabian Peninsula’s ancient past adds clues to how early humans left the African continent.

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

Today, the Sahara Desert is hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

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

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

Now, scientists aiming to understand the origins of inhabitants of the “green Sahara ... Ancient DNA is often fragmented and ...

That’s largely the case today, but 7,000 years ago the vast desert was an altogether ... gleaned details of the “green Sahara.” Now, with the help of ancient DNA from mummified remains ...