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Sahara desert was lush green land 14,500 to 5,000 years ago
The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...
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7,000-Year-Old Skeletons From the ‘Green Sahara’ Reveal a Mysterious Human Lineage
Their analyses revealed the green Sahara individuals likely branched off from the ancestors of sub-Saharan Africans roughly ...
Secrets of the Green Sahara: Ancient DNA Reveals Lost North African Lineage
A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...
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Unknown human lineage lived in 'Green Sahara' 7,000 years ago, ancient DNA reveals
Researchers analyzed the ancient DNA of two mummies from what is now Libya to learn about people who lived in the "Green ...
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DNA From 7,000-Year-Old Mummies Reveals Lost Society From Sahara
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, ...
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Ancient human lineage thrived in Sahara’s once lush landscape
The Sahara Desert is one of the driest and most ... diversity present in northern Africa between 50,000 and 20,000 years ago," Krause said. "From 20,000 years ago onward, genetic evidence shows ...
Ancient DNA pulls back curtain on the Sahara Desert’s greener past
This week, discover the Sahara’s greener past, explore a mysterious cosmological force, marvel at a new concept for space ...
50,000-year-old unknown human lineage yields genetic clues to Sahara’s earliest people
According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...