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

More than 7,000 years ago, during the African Humid Period, the Sahara was lush and green. A human population lived […] ...

Scientists are studying the origins of the inhabitants of the 'green Sahara' through the DNA of two female mummies.

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

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

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

This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

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

During the African Humid Period, also known as the Green Sahara, this region was inhabited by a human ... that split from sub-Saharan populations around the same time as the first human migrations out ...