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A dig at a coastal village in Israel has turned up remains of a large facility that once produced Tyrian purple on an ...

A new study reveals that the Carthaginians, famed for their Mediterranean empire and wars with Rome, had little genetic ...

The newfound tomb of an Egyptian prince has a false door, which ancient people viewed as an "entry" and "exit" for souls in ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

In antiquity and now, inconsistency and illogicality lie at the heart of the human effort to imagine what happens when we’re ...

The Punic people had almost no genetic ties to Phoenicians, even though the latter founded the great city of Carthage.

Digging into the sandy soil of northern Scotland, archaeologists unearthed a rusty metal object unlike anything they’d seen before. The item turned out to be a “rare” ancient chariot wheel and a first ...

Across the ancient Mediterranean, few luxury commodities were as prized, rare, and expensive as Tyrian purple, a dye used in ...

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

The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

Palmyra was considered one of the world's most intact ancient Roman sites. ISIS blew up many key monuments of this storied ...