Article: 200 Africans 'crossed the Red Sea and populated the world'.(News)

HUMAN life outside Africa can be traced to a tribe of 200 people who crossed the Red Sea after climate change made their journey possible.

Falling sea levels allowed the small band to travel across to Arabia 70,000 years ago, a BBC documentary claims.

The Incredible Human Journey draws on archaeological and genetic studies from around the world.

It tells how the DNA of today's populations of Europe, Asia, Australia, North America and South America can all be traced back to one tribe of Africans. It is thought that 70,000 years ago a dry period caused Red Sea ...

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