DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Then came the rivalry with Rome and the three Punic Wars ... University and author of the forthcoming “Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire,” who was not involved with the project.

Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in northern ... Mesoamerica: During the 5th and 6th centuries BC, the ancient Olmec civilization was coming to an end in Mexico.