The seafarer peoples of the past who mastered the oceans were crucial in laying the foundations upon which civilizations were ...

Lisbon is one of the oldest European cities. Founded by the Phoenicians, Lisbon was also home to the Romans, the Alans, and ...

Phoenician civilization emerged more than 3,000 years ago, centred around what is now Lebanon, before expanding across the Mediterranean Sea. Middle Eastern Phoenician city-states eventually fell ...

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic populations, says lead author Harald Ringbauer. Punic Necropolis of ...

The oft-maligned Littoral Combat Ship, or LCS, may have found its true calling: chasing down smugglers. USS Minneapolis-Saint Paul, a Freedom-variant LCS, recently stopped two suspected drug ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests they were more closely related to Greeks. By Franz Lidz The Phoenicians ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

A pair of French Navy ships are spending five days in New Orleans as part of a training mission for 700 French sailors and officers. The annual Jeanne d'Arc mission makes its first U.S. stop in ...

An Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation interim report outlines the sequence of events leading up to the collision of a container ship with the berthed tall ship STS Leeuwin II ...

Behold, then, the glossy new BBC podcast Titanic: Ship of Dreams, which promises to take listeners through it all, from the Titanic’s early designs and years of construction to the doomed voyage ...