Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green Sahara" 7,000 years ago.

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

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep ... The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with ...

DNA from the two mummies revealed that the never-before-seen North African ... Neanderthal ancestry that could only have been acquired outside of Africa, as Neanderthals lived in Eurasia.

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

Archaeologists believe they have uncovered evidence of an ancient biblical battle ... dating back from the Copper Age to World War I. Tel Megiddo was the location where Josiah, the king of ...