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

People living in North Africa today can trace their ancestry back to a unique human population that lived in the Sahara at a ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green ...

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

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid ... unidentified human lineage that lived separated from sub-Saharan and Eurasian populations for thousands of years.

A new study reveals a long-isolated North African human lineage in the Central Sahara during the African humid period more ...

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 ...