Turning off the tap until the violence stops is the logical response when perpetrators drink at the victim’s well ...

The power of Ramses III spread over key routes and was marked by rock inscriptions in his name—one has been found in Wadi Rum ...

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

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re dead ...

Excavations on unpromising mounds in the Iraqi desert revealed Sumer’s earliest city. Surviving relics and a rebuilt temple ...

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

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...

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

During a visit to Palmyra, reporters found traces of the many forces that had fought over the city and ancient monuments ...

More scientists are using digital replicas to allow the study of everything from artifacts to human remains—like this ancient Nepalese child’s skull—without damaging them. The Italian ...