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The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.
Publisher New York Ward, Lock Public Domain The ancient ... Phoenician city-states included Tyre which became prominent between the 9th and 6th centuries BC, and prestigious colonies around the ...
DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...
The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant ... By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a ...
The most powerful and prosperous of the Phoenicians’ independent city-states was Carthage, founded around the ninth century B.C. in what is now Tunisia. The Carthaginians, also known as the ...
An ancient Middle Eastern ... Middle Eastern Phoenician city-states eventually fell to other groups, but the culture thrived farther west — most notably in Carthage, in what is now Tunisia ...
After an earthquake damaged a city hall in Croatia, renovation work on the building’s basement unearthed the ruins of an ancient Roman theater. Photo from Croatia’s Ministry of Culture and ...