One longstanding problem has sidelined life-saving drugs, stalled next-generation batteries, and kept archaeologists from ...

Summer courses are set to take students back in time to explore ancient civilizations and mythologies that continue to shape ...

Tens of thousands of years ago, on the territory of the uninhabited Sahara Desert, gardens flourished, rivers flowed, ancient ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North African ...

“DNA extracted from two pastoralist women who were buried at the rock shelter around 7,000 years ago reveals that most of their ancestry can be traced to a previously unknown ancient North ...

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 ...

Shocking DNA findings pulled from two mummies discovered in Northern Africa may rewrite the family tree of human history.

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