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Ancient mummies from 7,000-years-ago reveal NEW unknown human ancestor that roamed the Sahara Desert
A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...
Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage, study says
Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...
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7,000-Year-Old Skeletons From the 'Green Sahara' Reveal a Mysterious Human Lineage
Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...
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DNA From 7,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveals Lost Society From Sahara
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, ...
Archaeology breakthrough as unknown human lineage discovered in 'green Sahara desert'
The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.
Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans
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 ...
Ancient DNA sheds light on origins of 7,000-year-old Saharan mummies
Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...
First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...
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Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage
Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... and previously unidentified human lineage that lived separated from sub-Saharan and Eurasian populations for thousands of years. "Intriguingly, the Takarkori ...