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Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
Carthaginians, Ancient Rome’s Infamous Enemies, Are Not Exactly Who Scholars Thought They Were, Ancestry Study Suggests
DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...
This Culture’s Linguistic Fingerprints Are Everywhere—But Scientists Can’t Find Their DNA
It was previously believed that the Levantine DNA of the Phoenicians spread as far as their famous alphabet, which influenced ...
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 ...
Scientific American7d
Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry
To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...
ZME Science on MSN9d
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.
Knowridge Science Report9d
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 ...
Phys.org on MSN9d
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 ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs8d
How Hannibal's Carthage spread Phoenician culture without leaving a genetic trace
The study aimed to use ancient DNA to characterize Punic people's ancestry and look for genetic links between them and Levantine Phoenicians, with whom they share a common culture and language.