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

These findings may also explain the Sahara’s mysterious wet past. Previous studies hinted at ancient lakes and wetlands scattered across the desert. Now, scientists think that powerful ...

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

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

resulting in the formation of lakes and rivers about 9,000 years ago. This is the key finding from an international, ...

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

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most barren regions on Earth, extending across much of North Africa. It spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area roughly the size of China or the ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

The Takarkori and Taforalt genomes are equally distantly related to sub-Saharan African genomes, both ancient and present. This led the authors to argue that the fragmented habitats of the Sahara ...

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