Researchers noted that this unique lineage of humans no longer exists in its original form in the modern world. The DNA of the Takarkori mummies now only makes up a part of the greater genetic ...

Two female mummies were unearthed by scientists who ... this group appears to have been almost completely isolated from the outside world - according to their DNA. They seemingly separated ...

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 ...

About 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

On one of the grandest streets in Liverpool, a strange and disturbing auction once took place that caused a national stir. In ...

More than 7,000 years ago, during the African Humid Period, the Sahara was lush and green. A human population lived […] ...

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 ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies. DNA revealed the ...

It preserves best in cool environments, not the extreme temperature swings of the world’s largest hot desert ... to extract enough DNA from the two mummies to sequence their genomes, a more ...

Adding to this was the European fascination with the medical traditions of the Islamic world. Arabic physicians ... conflated mūmiyā with Egyptian mummies, assuming that the embalmed dead ...

DNA from two mummies at Takarkori links them to 15,000-year-old Taforalt hunter-gatherers, challenging the idea of the Green Sahara as a migration corridor.