Two mummies reveal a human lineage lived in isolation in the Green Sahara 7,000 years ago
DNA explains the enigma of the culture that painted swimmers and hippos in the middle of the desert thousands of years ago
Almost 100 years ago, Hungarian explorer Lászlo Almásy was crossing the Sahara Desert when he came across something inexplicable in a cave. On the rock walls, he saw human figures painted thousands of years earlier that seemed to be swimming peacefully in the middle of the desert. Some thought they represented corpses, even souls floating in the waters of Nun, the primordial ocean of Egyptian culture. Almásy suggested that they were in fact simply people swimming, because the Sahara wasn’t always a desert.
