The Sahara Used To Be Green.
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The Sahara is rather famously a desert, but it wasn't always that way. And during the time of lush green forests, there were plenty of people who lived there, but they've been hard to study. However, new genetic analysis has given us clues into just how the people of the Green Sahara really lived.
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