Sahara Graveyard

Bodies buried when desert was wet, green

  • AP/National Geographic Society
  • AP/National Geographic Society
  • AP/National Geographic Society
  • AP/National Geographic Society
  • AP/National Geographic Society
  • An undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic Society shows zooarchaeologist Helene Jousse holding up a belly plate from a soft-shelled turtle found in a Tenerian garbage dump.
  • The skeletons and artifacts of the exceptional triple burial at Gobero preserved in this cast exactly as found by Paul Sereno, explorer-in-residence at the National Geographic Society.
  • An 11-year-old Tenerian girl who was buried wearing an upper-arm bracelet carved from the tusk of a hippo some 4,800 years ago.
  • A triple burial containing a woman and two children, their limbs entwined, discovered at the Gobero site during the 2006 field season.
  • University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno stabilizes the nearly perfectly preserved skull of a Tenerian woman during excavation at the extraordinary archaeological site of Gobero in Niger.

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