DNA Study Reveals Maltese-Phoenician Connection

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DNA study reveals a Phoenician-Maltese link

More than half of the Y chromosome in today?s Maltese population could have come in with the Phoenicians

This was revealed following a comparative study between DNA samples, such as a tooth from a human jaw ? which is around 4,000 years old ? found in a mountain cave at Raskifa, Lebanon, and DNA samples taken from Maltese men, along with other samples from men from around the Mediterranean.