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

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

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

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

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

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

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

Halle Berry, Jeremy Strong and Indian filmmaker Payal Kapadia will be among the jury members at this year’s Cannes Film Festival deciding the Palme d’Or winner. Festival organisers have unveiled the ...

The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. (photo credit: Raymar, MAEF) A recent study published in the journal Nature ...