Seven years ago, a storm in the forests of northern Ontario uprooted a tree. What it revealed was no ordinary patch of ...

Known for innovations like the first alphabet—a precursor to many modern writing systems—the Phoenicians established vast networks of maritime trade as early as the first millennium BCE.

The early Greek alphabet was painted on the body of an Attic black-figure cup. Credit: flickr / Dan Diffendale CC BY-SA 2.0 The alphabet was one of the most important and influential things created in ...

The ancient Phoenician script had a crucial role in the history of the Greek alphabet. As the ancient Greeks themselves affirmed, the Greek alphabet came directly from the Phoenician script when ...

The Greek alphabet, believed to have emerged in the eighth century BC, is now undergoing a major reevaluation thanks to ground breaking research. Express. Home of the Daily and Sunday Express.

Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet and were formidable sea merchants and colonizers, ... Ancient Rome infamously destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C.E. during the Third Punic War.

If it wasn’t for the Phoenician alphabet, you probably wouldn’t be reading this right now—but the DNA of these vanished Levantine people didn’t reach nearly as far as their cultural and ...

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.

The study, conducted by an international team of researchers under the Max Planck-Harvard Research Center for the Archaeoscience of the Ancient Mediterranean, analyzed human remains from 14 Phoenician ...

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 1 of hundreds of ancient human genomes ...

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 ...

To the point. Secret of the Phoenician-Punic civilization's success: Their culture spread across the Mediterranean not through large-scale mass migration, but through a dynamic process of cultural ...