Water is at the center of one of the enduring questions about how life first formed on Earth r. More specifically, where did ...

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 ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...