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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 ...
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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 ...
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The Rest of the World at the time of Classical Greece
Europe: In 510 BC, after a protracted struggle with its Etruscan kings ... Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true 'universal empire'. By the time of Darius ...
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Ranked: The Top 10 Warships of All Time
In fact, the Roman Empire, a mostly land-based power, recognized the sophistication of the Carthaginian ... the greatest ...