Roughly 8,000-year-old remains unearthed from present-day Tunisia held a surprise: European hunter-gatherer ancestry ...

These findings challenge the long-held narrative about migration into and out of North Africa before and during the Neolithic ...

Ancient DNA reveals that Stone Age Europeans voyaged by sea to Africa, providing the earliest proof of prehistoric ...

Working with researchers in Algeria and Tunisia, as well as Europe ... even while farming imported sheep, goats and cattle. Agriculture didn’t take off in the region until much later.

Outside of Europe, Egypt was known for its complex societies in the same time period, but the western coast of the ...

Despite geographical proximity, the Maghreb (a region of northern Africa that includes Algeria, Libya, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia ... supplemented by sheep, goats and cattle,” researchers ...