Thousands of years ago, the Sahara was a lush, green landscape inhabited by mysterious societies. For decades, scientists struggled to understand their origins due to the desert’s poor conditions for DNA preservation. Now, the remarkably preserved DNA from two 7,000-year-old women found in a Libyan cave is rewriting history, revealing a story of cultural exchange without genetic mixing in ancient North Africa.
How Two Mummies Rewrote the History of the Green Sahara
Genomic analysis of two 7,000-year-old mummies reveals the inhabitants of the once-lush “Green Sahara” were a genetically isolated population who adopted new technologies through cultural exchange rather than interbreeding.
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