The owner's diligent research eventually revealed that his grandfather’s gift came from what was once a Carthaginian settlement: Cadiz.

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 ...

Kat Baxter, curator of archaeology and numismatics for Leeds Museums and Galleries, poses with the 2,000-year-old coin. Leeds Museums and Galleries When Peter Edwards visited his grandfather’s house ...

The ancient Phoenicians may be largely forgotten, but they're not gone. Rome destroyed the Phoenicians' greatest city — Carthage — centuries ago, but new genetic studies indicate that as many as one ...

Despite being known as masters of trade, these seafarers were never a single collective. Different groups built powerful cities across the Mediterranean and the latest research shows they date back ...

When you think of famous BCE-era civilizations, some that immediately spring to mind are probably the Ancient Greeks, Ancient Egyptians, and other such societies that flourished around the ...

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, ...

Christopher Columbus and his discovery of the Americas in 1492 is one of the great stories of modern history. But five centuries after his momentous achievement, a British explorer wants to prove that ...

The ancient Phoenicians may be largely forgotten, but they are not gone. Rome destroyed the Phoenicians' greatest city - Carthage - centuries ago, but new genetic studies indicate that as many as one ...