Many of the features at Petrified Forest are on a scale best appreciated by leaving the car. Plan enough time to walk among the fossil logs and Painted Desert badlands. For a half-day visit ...

In the middle of the 19 th century, the German explorer Heinrich Barth discovered prehistoric Saharan rock sculptures and engravings while traveling through the Sahara Desert in North Africa ... of ...

Tafilalet has gorgeous oases in the Sahara Desert in southeastern Morocco ... Experience Check out the fossil town of Erfoud and see ancient marble quarries and sample dates, one of the most ...

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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.

Rare DNA found in the barrens of the Sahara reveals the ancestral lineage from North Africa with widespread pastoralism ...

Ancient human remains were found ... The stage was now set for the birth and growth of desert dunes': How the Sahara turned from a vast forest to the arid landscape we see today —28,000-year ...

Sequencing of 7,000-year-old human genomes from when the Sahara Desert was green suggest that ... The authors sequenced ancient DNA from two naturally mummified female individuals buried at ...

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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 ... making this pioneering ancient DNA study all ...

Limited gene flow: The genomes do not carry sub-Saharan African ancestry, suggesting that, contrary to previous interpretations, the Green Sahara ... desert. Due to the extreme aridity of the region ...