April 5, 2025 / 6:09 PM EDT / CBS News The Sahara desert, once lush and green, during a time between 14,500 and 5,000 years ago, was also home to a mysterious human lineage, a new study has found.

The Sahara Desert, the largest hot desert in the world, stretches across 9 million square kilometers of land, but what’s hiding beneath its golden sands? For centuries, the vast, inhospitable ...

Genomes sequenced from 7,000-year-old mummies in the Sahara have revealed a previously unknown population that inhabited the vast desert during its greener past.

Sahara desert, once lush and green, was home to mysterious human lineage By Will Dunham April 4, 202510:24 AM PDTUpdated April 4, 2025 ...