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Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry
To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...
Nature4d
Ancient DNA reveals Phoenicians’ surprising genetic ancestry
To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...
A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...
Retracted: A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
It appears that the culprit at Tall el-Hammam was a small asteroid similar to the one that knocked down 80 million trees in Tunguska, Russia in 1908. It would have been a much smaller version of the ...
Daily Sabah6dOpinion
An ancient people in Syria: Turkmens
Turkmens have been an integral part of Syrian society for centuries and are waiting to play a significant role in rebuilding ...
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A giant space rock demolished an ancient Middle Eastern city and everyone in it – possibly inspiring the Biblical story of Sodom
As the inhabitants of an ancient Middle Eastern city now called Tall el-Hammam went about their daily business one day about 3,600 years ago, they had no idea an unseen icy space rock was speeding ...