Paleoclimate and archaeological evidence tells us that, 11,000-5,000 years ago, the Earth's slow orbital 'wobble' transformed today's Sahara desert to a land covered with vegetation and lakes.

She reports on justice and human rights issues. Contact her at [email protected] The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago ...

April 4 (Reuters) - The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans parts of 11 countries and covers an area comparable to ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that pastoralism spread through cultural exchange, not large-scale migration. Gazing at an image of the ...

Philippe Dudouit Sun-scorched and wind-scoured, the place that geographers refer to as the Sahara-Sahel stretches across Africa between the desert and the great savanna. Though dozens of tribes ...

Editor’s note: A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. Picture the Sahara, and an inhospitable landscape of ...

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. DNA revealed the ...

The rest mostly go unnoticed, blending in with other stones. But in the Mauritanian desert, herders have learned what to look for: rocks with a strikingly dark surface, known as the fusion crust.

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green, Was Home to Mysterious Human Lineage By Will Dunham (Reuters) -The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of ...

The Takarkori rock shelter, an archaeological site in Libya’s Tadrart Acacus mountains, offers a glimpse into the Sahara Desert's greener past. - Archaeological Mission in the Sahara/Sapienza ...