The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests they were more closely related to Greeks. By Franz Lidz The Phoenicians ...

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic populations, says lead author Harald Ringbauer. Punic Necropolis of ...

The study, conducted by an international team of researchers under the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, analyzed human remains from 14 Phoenician ...