The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

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

The redesigned map of the New York City system, the first to be introduced in nearly half a century, is reminiscent of a version from the 1970s that was reviled by many traditionalists. By ...

The geopolitical importance of Cyprus has been both a blessing and a curse, sparking centuries of conflict over control of ...

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

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

The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.

For the past decade, the “Ghost of Reem Island,” as she was referred to in the press, has haunted me.

The famous Waldseemuller map, which in 1507 depicted the Americas for the first time, appears to have borrowed heavily from Martellus. To see the writing, researchers photographed the 6- by 4-foot ...

In no Babylonian hellhole is this truer than it is in Washington, where every president is a pacifist until his first ... you look at maps of Ukraine and Israel over the last century alone ...

All parts of the Greek and later Roman world were built upon exploiting either their conquered foes or those with the simple misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite its ...