The study provides critical new insights into the African Humid Period, a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara desert was a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

They lived during the “African Humid Period,” also known as the Green Sahara. Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement Advertisement ...

This Green Sahara existed during the African Humid Period, which peaked about 11,000 to 5,000 years ago. During this time, pastoralism spread in the Green Sahara.

Although the Takarkori population itself disappeared around 5,000 years ago when the African Humid Period ended and the desert returned, traces of their ancestry persist among various North African ...

This was an epoch between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago when the Sahara Desert was transformed into a lush green savanna with rivers and lakes.

At the end of a warmer and wetter climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the world’s largest hot desert roughly around 3,000 BCE.

Recent research has revealed surprising details about the prehistoric population of North Africa thanks to the genetic analysis of two individuals naturally mummified more than 7,000 years ago in the ...

An archaeology breakthrough has been made after a previously unknown human lineage that lived in the "green Sahara" in Africa was discovered through two 7,000-year-old mummies.

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not a dry land; it had rivers, lakes, and lush grasslands. This period is known as the African Humid Period.

At the end of a warmer and wetter climate stage called the African Humid Period, the Sahara transformed into the world's largest hot desert roughly around 3,000 BC.

Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not a dry land; it had rivers, lakes, and lush grasslands. This period is known as the African Humid Period.