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, ...

Along the coast of Tunisia sit the ruins of a once-great city whose power rivaled Rome: ancient Carthage. Today, the city’s sacred sacrificial site collects dust. Millennia ago, it collected gold, ...

A death mask from the third or second century bc found in the Phoenician trading city of Carthage in what is now Tunisia. An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an early alphabet spread ...

Preface signed: W.S.W. Vaux. With corresponding Hebrew transcript and Latin translation of the inscriptions by W.S.W. Vaux. Cover-title reads: Phoenician inscriptions ...

Carthage’s military history reaches back centuries before its well known generational conflict with Rome (264-146 BC. In his latest work, Prof. Hoyos (Sydney), author of Rome Victorious and A ...

The first DNA analysis of 2,500-year-old remains from one of the great early civilizations of the Middle East, the Phoenicians, has shown the man had European heritage, researchers said Wednesday. The ...

Long before oil, skyscrapers, or air routes, it was the ports that defined the Arab world’s power and imagination. Across the Mediterranean and the Gulf, Arab coastal cities became the pulsing hearts ...

Punic Necropolis of Puig des Molins on the island of Ibiza. The new ancient DNA study sequenced human remains from this and other important Phoenician-Punic archaeological sites. Credit: Raymar, MAEF ...

There was a very good turnout on Tuesday at the San Anton Hotel in Attard for another lecture organised by Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar. The speaker this time was Professor Anthony Frendo. Whatever ...

TUNIS (Reuters) – A Tunisian history enthusiast is making dye from sea snail shells inspired by a school project decades ago on ancient Carthage and the purple colouring that brought fabulous wealth ...

The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel lives” to describe his collection of biographical sketches, in which he paired illustrious Greeks with Romans who lived, in most cases, centuries ...