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 ...

When you think of famous BCE-era civilizations, some that immediately spring to mind are probably the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Egyptians, and other such societies that flourished around the ...

Briton Philip Beale aims to rewrite a bit of African history by sailing around the continent in a boat built with the same materials that he believes the Phoenicians used 2,500 years ago to make the ...

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, ...

Wine had great importance in the Iron Age Mediterranean. In particular, the Phoenicians—the inhabitants of the central coastal Levant—were considered to have played an important role in the spread and ...

On the ancient Syrian island of Arwad, which was settled by the Phoenicians in about 2000BC, men are hard at work hammering wooden pegs into the hull of a ship. But this vessel will not be taking ...

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 ...