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

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. Barth, ...

Two 7,000-year-old mummies from the Takarkori rock shelter in the Sahara have been found to be from a group with a previously ...

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This significant discovery has illuminated the Sahara Desert in our quest to find our ... naturally mummified women buried in the Takarkori rock shelter in Central Sahara (Libya).

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The Sahara Desert is one of Earth's most arid and desolate places, stretching across a swathe of North Africa that spans ...

Sahara Desert, Once Lush and Green ... They obtained DNA from the bones of two females buried at a rock shelter called Takarkori in remote southwestern Libya. They were naturally mummified ...

The Sahara desert, once lush and green ... year-old naturally mummified individuals excavated from the Takarkori rock shelter in southwestern Libya. The humans lived during the "African Humid ...