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 ...

What do ancient historical texts and modern archaeological research reveal about the origin of the Greek alphabet?

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

A recent study published in the journal Nature revealed that while the ancient Phoenician civilization spread its culture widely across the Mediterranean, it did not spread its DNA. An international ...

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

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

Expert Archaeologists from Spain have achieved a stunning breakthrough, raising a 2,600-year-old Phoenician shipwreck ... contribution" to the study of ancient naval construction.

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

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.

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 ...