The mummies are the remains of women who once lived in the "Green Sahara," also known as the African Humid Period. Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, the now-inhospitable Sahara was a humid and ...

New techniques in radiocarbon dating allowed scientists to date the remains to roughly 28,000 years ago. The fresh dating ... genes seem to have hung around long after Neanderthals themselves ...