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DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...
A new study reveals that the Carthaginians, famed for their Mediterranean empire and wars with Rome, had little genetic ...
The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...
The first battle that the Roman army fought in what is now Catalonia took place in 218 BC in the area around the Iberian town ...
A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...
The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.
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 ...
Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...
Against the ancient backdrop of Rome’s Colosseum, thousands gathered Friday evening for the solemn Via Crucis procession, where Cardinal Baldassare Reina carried the cross on behalf of Pope ...
A senior Chinese underworld figure, Zhang Dayong, and his partner, Gong Xiaoqing, were shot dead in Rome, in a suspected mafia-style execution indicating a turf war within Italy's Chinese criminal ...