DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

The findings, published in the journal Antiquity, provide the first conclusive chemical evidence that tin from Cornwall and ...

The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for ... and Punic archaeological sites spanning the Levant, North Africa, Iberia, and the Mediterranean ...

By analyzing ancient and modern DNA, scientists are uncovering the genetic origins of the Greek people, shaped over millennia ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing ... The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic ...

Where are you most likely to find people who are genetically closest to the ancient Greeks? “Ancestors” locates them in the Northern Levant, far closer genetically than most of the current ...

By Franz Lidz The Phoenicians were a confederation of maritime traders who emerged from the chaos of the Levant about 3,100 ... also known as the Punic people, established an empire that ...