The African humid period reveals how northern Africa was dramatically wetter during the late Pleistocene and Holocene geologic epochs, when much of the Sahara desert was covered by grasses, trees and ...

(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 China or the ...

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 a green savanna, rich in water bodies that facilitated ...

The Sahara Desert has not always been the arid, inhospitable landscape we know today. Between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, the area was unrecognizable, transformed into a lush savannah by an unusually ...

TAKARKORI, LIBYA—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, for the first time, scientists have deciphered the genomes of two individuals who lived ...