To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

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

Was the Phoenician writing system a true alphabet? If not, what should it be called instead, and what was the earliest true ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of the most influential maritime powers in history. The Phoenician culture ...

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

The work is published in the journal Nature. The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic links between them and Levantine Phoenicians, with whom ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...

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 ...

From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient relatives Phoenician city-states shared languages — recorded with an alphabet that was a precursor to Greek and Latin letters ...

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of ...

The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic links between them and Levantine Phoenicians, with whom they share a common culture and language.