Investigators dredged a teenage girl’s bones from a Santa Cruz riverbed in 1995. In Santa Rosa, skeletal remains of a homeless man were found three years later. Part of a skull was pulled from a ditch ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

Do you often wonder about your family’s origin? You might have heard of your great-grandparents but knowing anything beyond ...

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

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 found ...