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

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

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

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

A new study reveals that the Carthaginians, famed for their Mediterranean empire and wars with Rome, had little genetic ...

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

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

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.

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate ... sites spanning the Levant, North Africa, Iberia, and the Mediterranean islands ...