Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya.

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 ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... it was home to a mysterious lineage of people isolated from the outside world. Researchers analyzed the first genomes from people who lived in what is ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... Neandertal ancestry and found they have tenfold less Neandertal DNA than people outside Africa, but more than contemporary sub-Saharan Africans.