We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

Ashoka leads Hannibal’s elephant corps through skirmishes and trials over the Alps and into Italy during the Second Punic War (218–201 BCE). Once the elephants die, brought down by wounds or ...