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 ...

Many different civilizations have risen in the Near East over the millennia and each had their own unique religion, though they often overlapped, intermingled, and influenced one another.

This is the first ancient DNA to be obtained from Phoenician remains. Ariche was found to have belonged to a rare European haplogroup that likely links his maternal ancestry to locations somewhere ...