A new study reveals that the Carthaginians, famed for their Mediterranean empire and wars with Rome, had little genetic ...

However, Phoenician burial customs changed in the seventh century B.C. when they began to bury the deceased. According to a ...

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

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

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

The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

Excavated from a nearly 2,000-year-old villa in Valencia, Spain, the broken-up murals once formed fresco decor ...

Taormina is the ultimate postcard Italian town. Clinging to a rugged hill overlooking the Ionian Sea, it attracted pioneering ...

ATHENS, Greece — A 24-hour general strike disrupted Greece on Wednesday, halting flights, docking ferries, and scaling back public transport as unions demanded an end to decade-old austerity policies.

As all scribblers of doggerel know, rhymes must be paired up before you start a new line. Otherwise you may write yourself into a dead end with an ill-placed “purple” or “orange”. It is ...