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Knowridge Science Report10h
Scientists rewrite history of the Phoenicians with surprising DNA discovery
A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...
ZME Science on MSN10h
The People of Carthage Weren’t Who We Thought They Were
The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.
Nature1d
Ancient DNA reveals Phoenicians’ surprising genetic ancestry
To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...
Phoenician culture spread mainly through cultural exchange
Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...
Greek Reporter8d
Phoenicians: The First Rulers of the Mediterranean
The Phoenicians developed their ancient civilization with profits from the lucrative maritime trade of the Mediterranean.
All That's Interesting on MSN8d
2,600-Year-Old ‘Wine Factory’ Capable Of Holding 1,200 Gallons At A Time Unearthed In Lebanon
Archaeologists just unearthed a massive 2,600-year-old winepress in Lebanon that they believe was used as an ancient "wine ...
The Economist18h
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 ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs28d
Byzantine marble imports to Phoenician villages traced to Turkey, Greece
A new archaeometric study has identified the origins of marble objects from the early Byzantine villages of Porphyreon and Chhim in present-day Lebanon. Researchers conducted analyses on 66 ...
PBS3y
The Trireme
(1.12.4 - 13.2) They in turn based their design on ships first made by the Phoenicians, a people living on the coast of what is now Lebanon. Triremes derived their name from having three banks of ...