The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

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

Long before Rome rose from its seven hills, before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, there was Carthage — the other majestic, ...

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

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

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

Ancient genomes from North Africa ... Saharans learnt herding by intermarrying with people who were migrating into North Africa from the Levant. To test this, Salem and her colleagues sequenced ...

Genomes from people living in the area of Israel ... persisting for centuries if not millennia.” The ancient genomic sequences, which were pulled from bones of the inner ear, indicated that the Levant ...