The ancient Phoenicians may be largely forgotten, but they're not gone. Rome destroyed the Phoenicians' greatest city — Carthage — centuries ago, but new genetic studies indicate that as many as one ...

Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the Americas in 1492 is one of the great stories of modern history. But five centuries after his momentous achievement, a British explorer wants to prove that ...

The site of an ancient city called Auza, the earliest African city of the Phoenician civilization that existed 3,500 years ago, may have been in a different spot than experts have thought, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The seafaring Phoenicians left the world more than a legacy of alphabets and purple dye -- they left their DNA scattered throughout Mediterranean men, as well, according to a ...

DNA taken from an ancient Phoenicians could has shed new light on one of the great early civilisations of the Middle East. Researchers have sequenced the first complete genome of a 2,500-year-old body ...

The ancient Phoenicians may be largely forgotten, but they are not gone. Rome destroyed the Phoenicians' greatest city - Carthage - centuries ago, but new genetic studies indicate that as many as one ...