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 ...

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

Limited gene flow: The genomes do not carry sub-Saharan African ancestry, suggesting that ... a time between 14,500 and 5,000 ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, one of the world’s most ... The First Industrial Revolution was fueled by steam and water power. The Second relied on electricity, the Third on electronics and information ...

Currently a harsh, arid sandscape, it's hard to believe the Sahara was once studded with sparkling water bodies that ...