Building relationships with the region, rather than transactional neocolonialism, is the best route for strengthening the ...

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

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 ...

The genomes of two women who lived 7,000 years ago in the Sahara when it was a green savannah reveal a remarkably isolated ...

The rugged and beautiful Greek island of Lemnos is home to a desert in the Gomati area, to the island's north.

A solar power plant in this rural corner of Mali has jolted a village to life and awakened dreams of steady power in this ...