Archaeologists digging in Egypt’s desert unearthed a giant elongated skull that defies explanation. The discovery emerged from a burial site unlike anything nearby, with the strange cranium buried alone and deliberately angled.
Thousands of years ago, the Sahara Desert was not the arid expanse it is today. It was a green region with rivers, lakes, and vegetation, inhabited by pastoralist communities. Recent analysis of two mummies found in a rock shelter called Takarkori has provided new insight into how knowledge and culture spread in the ancient world.The mummies, estimated to be about 7,000 years old, belonged to wome…