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

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

This significant discovery has illuminated the Sahara Desert in our quest to find our ... Africa suggests “a stable and isolated genetic population from at least 15,000 to 7,500 years ago.” ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... it originated from an ancestral North African population. This source, newly documented at ...

The Sahara Desert has not always been the arid, inhospitable landscape we know today. Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, the area was unrecognizable, transformed into a lush savannah by an ...

Sahara Desert ... Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared around 5,000 years ago when the African Humid Period ended and the desert returned, traces of their ancestry persist among ...