The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

Between 5,000 and 14,000 years ago, the Sahara Desert looked nothing like it does today. It was lush and green, with lakes ...

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

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

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

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, ...

The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated ...

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

The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...

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 ...

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