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

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 ...

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

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

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

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

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

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

By the early first millennium BCE, Phoenician cities had established a vast maritime network of trading posts as far as Iberia, spreading their culture, religion, and language throughout the central ...

By the early first millennium BCE, Phoenician cities had established a vast maritime network of trading posts as far as Iberia, spreading their culture, religion, and language throughout the ...