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

The ghost ancestry was previously proposed to have come from sub-Saharan Africa, implying trans-Saharan migrations, but the new findings suggest that it originated from an ancestral North African ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Sahara were found to be from an unknown ancestry of humans as they did not share any ...

A study published in Nature uncovers a previously unknown North African genetic lineage from the African wet period, around 7,000 years ago. By analyzing ancient genomes from Taforalt (Morocco ...