Now a vast and parched expanse of sand and stone, the Sahara Desert hides secrets of a time when it teemed with life. Between ...

According to genomic analyses, the Takarkori rock shelter women came from a unique North African lineage that diverged from ...

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

Taken from History of The Patriarchs of Alexandria, 642, The Internet Medieval Sourcebook. WHY COME TO AFRICA? "I think this (the Muslim invasion of North Africa in 639) is an historical and ...

An international team led by researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, has ...

"There's not been much of a North African story," study co-author David Reich, a population geneticist at Harvard Medical School, told Nature News. "It was a huge hole." Previous research in the ...

state-craft and organising people for campaigns for battles and also maybe a kind of advanced religion." Professor Leonard Ngcongco. But as with most areas of early African history there is a note ...

The study also sheds light on Neandertal ancestry, showing that the Takarkori individuals have ten-fold less Neandertal DNA than people ... about North African population history and highlights ...

Neandertal genetic traces: The ancient individuals had significantly less Neandertal DNA compared to people outside Africa ... "Our research challenges previous assumptions about North African ...