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 China or the United ...

A GROUNDBREAKING discovery of two mummies has revealed a previously unknown human ancestor from over 7,000 years ago. The ...

This significant discovery has illuminated the Sahara Desert in our quest to find our human origins ... What archaeologists ...

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

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

Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...

What happens beneath the Earth’s surface may seem distant, but its effects shape continents, influence ocean circulation, ...

Between 14,800 and 5,500 years ago, during the so-called African Humid Period, the Sahara was not the desert we know today. It was a green expanse of land, with numerous plants and ...

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 ...

It may be the gateway to the vast Sahara desert, but that doesn't mean it's free of that modern scourge of the ...