The Giants of Mont’e Prama are enormous sculptures between two and two and a half meters tall created by the Nuragic ...

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 ...

Carthage, known for its vast Mediterranean empire and epic conflicts with Rome, was utterly destroyed in 146 B.C.E. The Romans, as victors, shaped much of what we know about the Carthaginians, or ...

Athens has firmly declined Germany’s proposal to return refugees who initially sought asylum in Greece, citing the country’s already heavy burden of hosting a disproportionate number of displaced ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz has refuted the long-held claim that the Carthaginians carried out large-scale child sacrifice from the eighth to ...

For centuries, the expansion of the Phoenician-Punic civilization across the Mediterranean was attributed to massive migrations. However, a recently published genetic study reveals that their success ...

The Carthaginians, also known as the Punic people, established an empire that eventually extended across northeastern Africa and into the south of modern-day Spain. Then came the rivalry with Rome ...

Necropolis of Tuvixeddu, a Punic necropolis in the Mediterranean. Credit: cristianocani / CC BY 2.0 For years, historians believed that the ancient Carthaginians were largely of Phoenician origin, ...

A new DNA study into Phoenician and Punic civilisations has revealed a surprising twist – that most Carthaginians (Puinic people) were not actually from the Levant and instead shared genetic ...

For years, historians believed that the ancient Carthaginians were largely of Phoenician origin, having descended from settlers who migrated from the Levant. However, new genetic research challenges ...

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