Eggs poached in tomatoes, spices and sauce originated in the northern part of Africa near the Sahara Desert. Today's recipe is for a dish known as shakshuka (shak-SHOO-ka), which is popular in the ...

The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

The desert that we see today in Arabia was once a region that repeatedly underwent "green" periods in the past, as a result ...

People living in North Africa today can trace their ancestry back to a unique human population that lived in the Sahara at a ...

Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...

The Sahara Desert, now desolate, was once a lush savannah supporting a mysterious, isolated human lineage around 7,000 years ...

The latest genetic studies reveal that 7,000 years ago, the Sahara was home to a unique group of people. This community lived ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the ...

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Max Planck Institute evolutionary anthropologist Nada Salem and colleagues sequenced the ancient DNA of two female ...