The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

A new DNA study reveals that ancient Carthaginians had diverse ancestry and were not primarily descended from Phoenician ...

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in northern Africa, which controlled most of the trade of the western Mediterranean. It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed ...