Shocking DNA findings pulled from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history.

The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

Homo sapiens migrated out of Africa roughly 50,000 years ago, but scientists have now discovered that some chose to remain ...

The Takarkori rock shelter — situated in southwestern Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains — offers a remarkable glimpse into the ...

Found at the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya, these mummies, the remains of female herders, belong to a population that defies the genetic expectations researchers had based on the region’s history.

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, ...

Retired Colombian soldiers have been brought to Sudan to bolster the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), with promises of a good ...

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

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

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 ...