Dr. Gina Paige, co-founder of African Ancestry, is giving African Americans the pathway to connect further with their identity and heritage. Paige will be at the Heinz History Center on Saturday ...

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

7,000-year-old natural mummy found at the Takarkori rock shelter (Individual H1) in Southern Libya. Credit: Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome A new study reveals that a ...

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 genetic similarities.

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 ...

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 ...

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DNA analysis reveals that these women belonged to a deeply rooted North African lineage that diverged from other human populations before the major out-of-Africa expansions. Their genome shows strong ...

During the African Humid Period, also known as the Green Sahara, this region was inhabited by a human lineage that remained largely isolated, without a direct genetic relationship to populations from ...

Therapsids, the ancient relatives of mammals, once roamed Earth in great numbers during the middle to late Permian period.