Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful cities across the Mediterranean and the latest research shows they date back ...
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The First Inhabitants of Morocco Were Not the Phoenicians: Archaeologists Uncover a Forgotten Civilization
Archaeologists in Morocco have uncovered a 4,200-year-old settlement, challenging the long-held belief that the Phoenicians were the first to establish a presence along the country’s Atlantic coast.
Pottery shards, coins, and bones can survive for millennia beneath the soil, but the scents of antiquity typically escape archaeological recovery. Now, for the first time, an interdisciplinary team of ...
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 ...
An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread its culture far and wide—but not its DNA, finds a 23 April Nature study of hundreds of ancient human genomes. Phoenician ...
Punic Necropolis of Puig des Molins on the island of Ibiza. The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. The Phoenician ...
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