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

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We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

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Typhoid fever is a particularly unpleasant bacterial infection that can spread throughout the body and, according to the NHS, ...

Once the largest country in Africa, Sudan was divided into two distinct regions: the predominantly Arab-Muslim north and the ...

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

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

These discoveries suggest that humans were able to live in rainforest before they left Africa, the home of our species. Until ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...