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

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

The mummies are thought to be from a never-before-seen population living in remote Africa around 7,000 years ago.

DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago ...

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 7,000 years ago, in the Sahara, two women were buried in a rock shelter in what is now southwestern Libya. At the time, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Photo: Salem et al The Takarkori rock shelter is tucked against the Tadrart Acacus Mountains of southwest Libya. Humans lived here from 10,200 to 4,200 years ago. Archaeologists have unearthed a ...

Researchers successfully sequenced the DNA of two 7,000‐year‐old naturally mummified individuals recovered from the Takarkori rock shelter in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus Mountains. The study ...