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 similarity to their counterparts in the Levant ...

The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

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

This analysis, one of the most geographically extensive in ancient DNA research to date, produced surprising results that ...

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 ...

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.

Phoenicians no doubt traveled to and from Carthage ... and author of the forthcoming “Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire,” who was not involved with the project.

The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. (photo credit: Raymar, MAEF) A recent study published in the journal Nature ...

Wes Anderson’s film, starring Benicio Del Toro and Mia Threapleton, makes little advance on the director’s recent airless ...

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 ...