For decades, stories about the ancient Mediterranean have centred on the grand cultures of Greece, Rome, Phoenicia and Egypt. North-west Africa seldom enters the picture before the arrival of ...

WESTFIELD — “The History of the Phoenicians” will be the topic of Sam Mahmoud at the First Wednesday Luncheon of the Westfield Historical Society at noon, Wednesday, March 3, at the Echo Lake Country ...

A recent study published in the journal Nature revealed that while the ancient Phoenician civilization spread its culture widely across the Mediterranean, it did not spread its DNA. An international ...

In this scholarly work, Quinn (The Punic Mediterranean), associate professor of ancient history at Oxford, finds surprising echoes through the centuries of the ways in which Phoenician cultural ...

A huge basin on a tiny island off the coast of Sicily, long thought to have been an ancient harbor, was actually a sacred freshwater pool surrounded by Phoenician temples and aligned to the stars, ...

On a tiny island off Sicily’s west coast, a huge pool long ago displayed the star-studded reflections of the gods. Scientists have long thought that an ancient rectangular basin, on the island of ...

The arrival of the Phoenicians, then, did not mark the beginning of complex societies in Morocco. It was a new chapter in a much longer history of interaction, adaptation and exchange. These advances ...