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

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

A new DNA study reveals that ancient Carthaginians had diverse ancestry and were not primarily descended from Phoenician ...

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

The ancient people of Carthage, located in modern Tunisia ... people genetically similar to those in modern-day Sicily and Greece, and North African ancestry appeared later, likely as Carthage ...

a historian at Cardiff University and author of the forthcoming “Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire,” who was not involved with the project. “But the paper shows us how we need to ...

For years, historians believed that the ancient Carthaginians were largely of Phoenician origin, having descended from settlers who migrated from the Levant. However, new genetic research challenges ...