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 ...

but the culture thrived farther west — most notably in Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, until its destruction in 146 bc. From Vikings to Beethoven: what your DNA says about your ancient ...

MANY LEGENDS attend the beginning of Carthage, an ancient city in modern-day Tunisia. Its founder, Queen Dido, a refugee from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon), is supposed to have made ...

Housed in a former Beylic palace near the old city of Carthage, the museum is ... the its main attractions is the staggering number of ancient mosaics that grace its walls and floors.

The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains ... By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate the region, and Phoenician ...