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Published online 14 August 2008 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news.2008.1040

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Back when the desert was green

Burial site offers rare glimpse of daily life in the stone-age Sahara.

She was in her twenties when she died; the children were roughly five and eight. No one knows what killed them or what happened after, but it’s easy to speculate.

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