Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

The desert covers over 3.3 million square miles, which means it's roughly the same size as the entire United States.

the authors of a new study confirm that the group never mingled with people from sub-Saharan Africa, existing in complete ...

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

Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

turned the once lush oasis into the Sahara desert known today. Using genomic analysis, the researchers found that the North African lineage diverged from sub-Saharan African populations at about ...