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Carthaginians, Ancient Rome's Infamous Enemies, Are Not Exactly Who Scholars Thought They Were, Ancestry Study Suggests
The Phoenician culture emerged around 3,100 years ago from coastal Mediterranean sites in modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel, also known as the Levant. Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet ...
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 ...
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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 ...