A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the ...

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

In this pioneering study, researchers analyzed 7,500-year-old African women and found a whole new human lineage.

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

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

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

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

A new report from Frontline AIDS finds that cases in the region have surged by 116 percent since 2010 amid war and little ...

The Anaheim City Council lent its full support to a legislative effort to properly categorize Middle Eastern and North African people when government agencies collect demographic data. Introduced ...

While this lineage no longer exists in unadmixed form, this ancestry is still a central genetic component of present-day North African people, highlighting their unique heritage. Furthermore ...