Zias, published in the journal Levant, reveals how ancient Phoenicians may have incorporated cleansing into their religious ...

They were part of the ancient Phoenician civilization, which flourished between 1550 and 300 BCE. Their city-states produced many prominent merchants, traders, and colonizers, being located along ...

Archaeologists just unearthed a massive 2,600-year-old winepress in Lebanon that they believe was used as an ancient "wine factory." The ancient Phoenicians who lived on the shores of the ...

Current producers extract and harvest Tyrian purple from the murex shellfish in much the same way as the ancient Phoenicians. Thousands --- approximately 10,000 or (54 kilograms (119 lb.) of these ...

Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry. Phoenician civilization spread its culture and alphabet across the Mediterranean but not, evidently, its DNA.

Phoenicia was an ancient civilization along the eastern Mediterranean coast, in the area of modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel, which existed from about 1500 to 300 B.C.E.

To this day, historians can’t fully explain the mysterious disappearance of the thriving ancient society of Tartessos. New questions arise as excavations reveal more about the advanced ...

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 ...