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.
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