A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

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 ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

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.

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

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 ...