Researchers studied the DNA of two 7,000-year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated in the Takarkori rock shelter in ...

It could also explain why these pyramids are concentrated in what is now a narrow, inhospitable desert strip in the harsh Sahara Desert, far from where the Nile is today. We suggest that The ...

And it could help explain why they now seem to be situated in a narrow, inhospitable desert ... of 31 pyramids, including the Giza pyramid complex, in this inhospitable part of the Sahara.

How and why did the ancient Egyptians build the pyramids? These two questions puzzled generations of people who came across these gigantic, mysterious structures in the Sahara Desert. Today we're ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found. Researchers from Germany's Max Planck ...

A view from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya ...