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

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

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

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

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

Instead, the people buried in Punic cities between the sixth and second centuries BCE carried ... They were shaped by trade, war, colonization, and local interactions. Their shared identity ...

The Carthaginian empire left its mark in history, particularly well-known for the three large-scale "Punic Wars" with the rising ... pair of close relatives (ca. second cousins) bridging the ...

The first battle that the Roman army fought in what is now Catalonia took place in 218 BC in the area around the Iberian town of Kissa. Although it was a major event in the development of the Punic ...

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