7,000-year-old mummy DNA reveals a lost human lineage hidden in the Sahara for 50,000 years |
The Sahara is often imagined as an endless expanse of sand, a landscape so harsh that permanent human settlement seems almost impossible. Yet the desert seen today is only a recent version of a much older place. Thousands of years ago, vast stretches of North Africa looked entirely different. Grasslands spread across regions that are…