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

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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.

Their lineage remained isolated throughout most of its existence before the Sahara again became uninhabitable. At the end of ...

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

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

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.

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