Ancient genomes from Libya’s Takarkori shelter have provided new insights into the genetic history of the Green Sahara.

Archaeologists uncovered the remains of 15 women and children at The Takarkori rock shelter site two decades ago, in southwestern Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains. New techniques made it ...

The Takarkori rock shelter — situated in southwestern Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains — offers a remarkable glimpse into the Sahara’s greener past. Archaeologists uncovered the remains of 15 women ...

About every 21,000 years, the Sahara becomes a lush woodland. During the last period ending about 5,000 years ago, an ...

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, ...

According to the study published in Nature, archaeologists uncovered at the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya’s Tadrart Acacus Mountains two naturally mummified women buried around 7,000 ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...