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

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A new study in *Nature* reveals the Phoenicians, famed for their Mediterranean trade and alphabet, were not solely from the ...

Pierre Zalloua, a Lebanese-born population geneticist with a flair for (gently) stirring the pot, takes the reader on an ...

The Phoenician culture emerged around 3,100 years ago from coastal Mediterranean sites in modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel, also known as the Levant. Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet ...

A groundbreaking study published in Nature on Wednesday sheds new light on their identity through ancient DNA ... ancestry was gradually diluted by local populations, especially as Carthage grew and ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 ... Punic people—shared no ancestry with ancient Middle ...

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 ...

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

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