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

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

An international team has sequenced the first ancient genomes from the so-called Green Sahara, a period when the largest desert in the world temporarily turned into a humid savanna-like environment.

Christianity first arrived in North Africa, in the 1st or early ... and the interest of Europeans in colonising Africa. However, where people had already converted to Islam, Christianity had ...

and the Arab people of north Africa have different genetic origins. For the first time, the study reveals that the two separated more than 20,000 years ago and sheds light on the region's complex ...

The Amazigh people are the indigenous people of North Africa, with tribal populations stretching from Siwa in Egypt to Semara in Morocco. Amazigh people celebrate their new year outside the ...

The first genomic study of ancient people from the eastern Maghreb region ... hinted at cultural exchange between European and North African hunter-gatherers. Using ancient genomes, researchers ...

The Amazigh people are the indigenous people of North Africa, with tribal populations stretching from Siwa in Egypt to Semara in Morocco. Historically known by the derogatory term “Berber ...