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

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.

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, ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

TRIPOLI: 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 co ...

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 ...