To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

The force of this unpredictability is immediate: next to the entrance of the first gallery are Whitten’s ‘grey paintings’ ...

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

Atlantic hurricane names repeat every six years unless one is so deadly or destructive that its name is retired from use for ...

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

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The candle, representing Christ himself, is blessed by the priest who then inscribes in it a cross, the first letters and last of the Greek alphabet, (Alpha and Omega `the beginning and the end ...

When video game characters speak more than one language, it's exciting for a multitude of reasons: the addition of another ...

The main reason English has so many silent letters is that many words are borrowed. Words borrowed from Latin, Greek, French, ...

Originating in the Horn of Africa and first cultivated in the Arabian Peninsula, coffee has been providing the world with refreshment for at least 500 years.

About forty men were engaged in the writing of the Bible, during a period of about 1600 years -- that is, from 1500 B.C. to ...