When the Sahara was green

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Archaeologists believe these skeletons, with interlocked fingers, are those of a mother and two children. The triple burial is part of a site in Niger called Gobero.

Green Sahara

( Mike Hettwer / National Geographic Society )

Archaeologists believe these skeletons, with interlocked fingers, are those of a mother and two children. The triple burial is part of a site in Niger called Gobero.

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