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|  New Message Posted!2007-10-17 13:52
A Lebanese scientist following the genetic footprint of the ancient Phoenicians says he has traced their modern-day descendants, but stumbled into an old controversy about identity in his country.
Geneticist Pierre Zalloua has charted the spread of the Phoenicians out of the eastern Mediterranean by identifying an ancient type of DNA which some Lebanese, Syrians and Palestinians share with Maltese, Spaniards and Tunisians.
A seafaring civilization which reached its zenith between 1200 and 800 BC, the Phoenicians' earliest cities included Byblos, Tyre and Sidon on Lebanon's coast.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070910/sc_nm/phoenicians_dna_dc;_ylt=ApDqhCDz4TrEphjmxblCHLwhANEA
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