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

Genomes from people living in the ... if not millennia.” The ancient genomic sequences, which were pulled from bones of the inner ear, indicated that the Levant farmers and the Zagros farmers likely ...

Another key way we understand what ancient life was like is through what people left behind. The field of archaeology emerged in the 19th century, fueled by European imperialism, colonialism, and a ...

“This changes the picture in people’s minds of Syria ... historic sites scattered across a land central to many ancient Middle Eastern civilizations. The historic souks, caravansaries and ...

A century ago, UChicago scholars argued a controversial idea: Western civilization had its roots in the ancient Middle East—not in Greece or Rome. Today, scholars at the OI and across the University ...

An ancient Middle Eastern civilization that developed an ... and his colleagues analysed the DNA from the remains of around 200 people from Phoenician archaeological sites in the Middle East ...