Now in its 8th season, the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice will celebrate all things French at this year’s celebration August 4-6. Remaining true to its mission of bringing together some ...

The Phoenicians were a Semitic-speaking people whose maritime trade networks were crucial for the spread of information and culture throughout the Mediterranean. We do not know what the Phoenicians ...

The Phoenician culture vanished from the Mediterranean following the fall of Carthage in 146 BC, when the Romans razed the city and (according to legend) salted the earth, but the Phoenician people ...

People from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture shared no ancestry with ancient Middle Easterners. Plus, Mendel’s last pea-plant mysteries have finally been solved and an origami-inspired ...

Spanish archaeologists have successfully removed a 2,600-year-old shipwreck from waters off the country's southeastern coast, two decades after the relic was initially found, officials said. The ...

Archaeologists in Morocco have discovered the remains of a 4,200-year-old settlement that predates the Phoenicians — a surprise given that this region was thought to be uninhabited at that time. The ...

image: A research team co-led by a scientist at New Zealand's University of Otago has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the "Young Man of Byrsa" or ...