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Previously, Pritchard's group used ancient DNA to study the genetic diversity of people in and around Rome during a 12,000-year swath of history spanning the Stone Age to medieval times.
Swap beaches for ancient history in Tunisia, the North African destination with more ruins than Rome. Forget Europe; from the ruins of Carthage to the El Jem amphitheatre, Tunisia’s restoration ...
North Africa, at that time, was a wealthy area that provided Rome with much of its grain. The Vandals advanced quickly into North Africa and laid siege to the city of Hippo Regius (modern-day ...
Thanks to Rome’s conquest of places like Carthage and Egypt, the region of North Africa was firmly established in the empire. Roman Africans sometimes traveled to the far reaches of the empire.
DNA recovered from archaeological remains of ancient humans who lived in what is now Tunisia and northeastern Algeria reveals that European hunter-gatherers may have visited North Africa by boat ...
Changes in ancient north Africa. The researchers managed to extract DNA from the teeth and bones from two of the burials. They found that as humans migrated out of Africa around 50,000 years ago, one ...
As the Roman Empire spread across Europe, North Africa and the Middle East, the baths followed, bringing daily civilization to millions of people. Inside the Thermae Most bath complexes were Thermae.