However, the genetic evidence presented by these mummies suggests that pastoralism, at least in the Green Sahara, may have spread not through migration but through the exchange of practices and ideas ...

Credit: Antoine Delaunay/Guillaume Baby/Abdallah Zaki An international team of researchers, including scientists from UNIGE, has discovered that the Arabian Peninsula’s desert was once shaped ... Its ...

"He can sell sand in the desert, and people would thank him for it," Njiraini said, noting Ruto’s remarkable way of delivering speeches that resonate with people on a personal level. While those ...

The sand wall near the Tindouf camps forms a 50-kilometer segment of the approximately 2,700-kilometer-long structure, stretching from the southern city of Guerguerat, and reaching approximately ...

While the Sahara is now a vast expanse of sand where the fight for survival ... during what is known as the African Humid Period, the desert known for being one of the driest places on Earth ...

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 covers an area comparable to China or ...

Today, the Sahara Desert is a hot and dry belt of sand stretching across much of northern Africa. But between 15,000 and 5,000 years ago it would have been full of rivers, plants and people. New ...

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But the Green Sahara people carried only trace amounts of Neanderthal DNA, illustrating that they had scant contact with outside populations. Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...