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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They specifically looked for signals of migration from the Levant, Iran and ancient trading partners ... particularly involving enslaved people from East Africa. The medieval forced migration ...

The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic links ... buried in 14 Phoenician and Punic Archaeological sites spanning the Levant, North Africa, ...