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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

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

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.