DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

Their reach extended from present-day Lebanon across the Mediterranean, setting up colonies as far west as Iberia. By the 6th ...

The numbers indicate the number of human genomes produced from these sites. Credit: Harald Ringbauer By the 6th century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician colony in what is now Tunisia, dominated the region.

By the 6th century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate this region. These culturally Phoenician communities associated with or ruled by ...

from the sixth to the second centuries B.C., Levantine Phoenicians made only a negligible genetic contribution to Punic colonies. “They preserved Phoenician culture, language, religion and their ...

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate the region, and Phoenician culture thrived farther west until its destruction in 146 BCE.

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive).

Scientists examined ancient DNA to trace the ancestry of the people of Carthage, a powerful Phoenician colony in modern-day Tunisia and one of ancient Rome’s most formidable enemies ...

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...