DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

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.

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

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 ...

Study challenges long-standing beliefs about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, a culture recognized as one of ...

The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

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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 ...

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 ...