After the death of Alexander the Great, a eunuch named Philetaerus established the ancient Greek city of Pergamon a major ...

The Samnites were Italic tribes that migrated from Central Europe to the mountainous south-central region of Italy in the 9th century BC.

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

With the death of Julius Caesar in 44 BCE, Rome ... ancient Rome, including the Pantheon, the Theater of Marcellus, and Largo Argentina. Our tour begins at the Theater of Marcellus, originally ...

New research on a skeleton of a gladiator that was found in York in 2004 shows the distinctive markings of lion's teeth.

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 ...

Melting pot of ancient people: The study found that Punic populations ... particularly well-known for the three large-scale ...

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 ...