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

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 ...

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

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

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...

The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

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

Tunisia is North Africa’s hidden gem and will get under your skin in the best possible way, as Photojournalist Hum Hunt-Davis ...

From systematic persecution to mass killings, humanity has witnessed unspeakable acts of cruelty throughout history. Join us ...

The art of deception, as old as war itself, can garner astonishment when one side’s competence enables it to pull off an ...

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 ...