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Greek Reporter2d
Ancient Carthaginians Were Not Mostly of Phoenician Origin, DNA Study Finds
A new DNA study reveals that ancient Carthaginians had diverse ancestry and were not primarily descended from Phoenician ...
Scientific American1d
Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry
To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...
Who’s a Carthaginian? Genetic Study Revises Ancestry of Rome’s Ancient Nemesis
The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...
Knowridge Science Report2d
Scientists rewrite history of the Phoenicians with surprising DNA discovery
A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...
Ancient DNA challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization
The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...
The complex origin story of domestic cats: Research points to Tunisia
Researchers looking into the origin of domestic cats have long considered that cats likely accompanied early farmers during ...
The Economist3d
The Carthaginians weren’t who you think they were
The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...
Secrets of the Green Sahara: Ancient DNA Reveals Lost North African Lineage
A new study reveals that a distinct North African human lineage lived in the Central Sahara over 7,000 years ago, during the African humid period. This population had been long isolated from other ...