the mighty empire of Carthage first began as a humble Phoenician outpost. The Phoenicians were the consummate sailors of the ancient Mediterranean, a Semitic people from the Levant, whose main ...

The ancient people of Carthage, located in modern Tunisia, did not have ancestry in common with the Levantine Phoenicians that established their culture, according to a new study. J. M. W.

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

Only three of the 103 people whose bones were carbon ... Cardiff University and author of the forthcoming “Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire,” who was not involved with the project.

The new ancient DNA study sequenced human ... Over time, North African ancestry entered the mix among Punic people, reflecting the rise of Carthage after 500 BCE. "The absence of Middle Eastern ...

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal ... The new study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic links between them and Levantine ...

Punic people shared an ancestry profile resembling those of ancient inhabitants of Greece and Sicily. Over time, North African ancestry entered the mix — reflecting the rise of Carthage after ...