The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

Their ancestry pointed not to Tyre or Sidon, but to Sicily, the Aegean, and North Africa. Even Carthage — perhaps the most iconic of Phoenician-founded cities — was populated mainly by people ...

AD 203, a young woman named Vibia Perpetua stepped into a Roman arena in Carthage, North Africa. The crowd jeered, wild ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived ... identified as Phoenician and Punic in the Levant, North Africa, Iberia, Sicily, Sardinia and Ibiza. The study concluded that ...

“Much of the remaining ancestry originated from North Africa, reflecting the growing influence of Carthage.” Carthage, whose ruins still stand in Tunisia, rose as a trading empire around 500 B ...

the knowledge of iron working may have come from the Phoenicians who in 800 BC founded the colony of Carthage on the North African coast. The skills may have crossed the Sahara desert with the ...

Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. This mixture of ...

Set in motion by the dissolution of Carthage, the era of Roman Africa ... notes that many North African Roman mosaics exhibit more vibrant colors than their Italian counterparts, a detail that ...