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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage, study says
Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...
Archaeology breakthrough as unknown human lineage discovered in 'green Sahara desert'
The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.
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DNA From 7,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveals Lost Society From Sahara
About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...
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Mummies From The Sahara Helped Uncover A New Lineage Of Humans
More than 7,000 years ago, during the African Humid Period, the Sahara was lush and green. A human population lived […] ...
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Ancient human DNA from north Africa reveals hidden history of the Sahara
The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...
50,000-year-old unknown human lineage yields genetic clues to Sahara’s earliest people
According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...
Scientists Discovered 7,000-Year-Old Mummies in the Desert That Don’t Share DNA With Modern Humans
Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...
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Discovering the Green Sahara's Mysterious Past
The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...
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We've Just Learned More About the Mysterious People of the Green Sahara
About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...
First ancient genomes from the Green Sahara deciphered
An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...
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Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage
April 4 (Reuters) - 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 ...