Young Man of Byrsa

2,500-Year-Old Phoenician DNA Linked to Rare and Ancient European Ancestry

27 May, 2016 - 21:36 Alicia McDermott

2,500-Year-Old Phoenician DNA Linked to Rare and Ancient European Ancestry

Researchers have sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of an ancient Phoenician. The results of the studies of the remains of a man called the "Young Man of Byrsa" and "Ariche” has linked...