Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

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 unknown ancestry. DNA analysis of the mummies, which are the remains of ...

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

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most barren ... it was home to a mysterious lineage of people isolated from the outside world. Researchers analysed the first genomes from people who ...

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

The Sahara Desert is on the far eastern ... Historically, Berber people have been desert nomads, or would live high up in the ...

Yet more than one billion people, one-sixth of the Earth's population, actually live in desert regions. Deserts cover more than one-fifth of the Earth's land area, and they are found on every ...

The world’s largest hot desert is the Sahara and it’s almost as big ... of the desert and Ferne explains how Bedouin people have adapted to live in desert conditions. This clip is from the ...

The Sahara, I said. The desert. Look at any map of Africa and ... We were there to meet and learn about the Tuareg, a semi-nomadic people who live in Algeria, Libya, Mali and Niger.