A 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician Dubbed the 'Young Man of Byrsa' or 'Ariche' (IMAGE)

University of Otago

A 2,500-Year-Old Phoenician Dubbed the 'Young Man of Byrsa' or 'Ariche'

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A research team co-led by a scientist at New Zealand's University of Otago has sequenced the first complete mitochondrial genome of a 2500-year-old Phoenician dubbed the "Young Man of Byrsa" or "Ariche". This is the first ancient DNA to be obtained from Phoenician remains. Ariche was found to have belonged to a rare European haplogroup that likely links his maternal ancestry to locations somewhere on the North Mediterranean coast, most probably on the Iberian Peninsula.

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