CINCINNATI — A 38-year-old man is dead after a shooting early Monday morning in Carthage CPD said the shooting happened around 1:30 a.m they found 38-year-old William Heard suffering from a gunshot wound First responders attempted life-saving measures CPD did not say if they have any suspects in the shooting This is an ongoing investigation by CPD's Homicide Unit Anyone with information is asked to contact the Homicide Unit at 513-352-3542 Edith grew up on a tobacco farm where she learned the value of hard work She graduated from Vass-Lakeview School where she was chosen to be Miss Vass-Lakeview her senior year Not wanting to continue farming Edith went to work at Quality Mills in Carthage where she made baby clothes After retiring she helped out in the family’s health food store Natures Own in Southern Pines and was a homemaker caring for grandchildren and other family She was a member of Vass United Methodist Church Edith was a fabulous cook and was known for her biscuits She enjoyed jigsaw and word search puzzles In addition to her parents she was preceded in death by her infant son She is survived by her husband of 70 years Scott Frye and his wife Gina all from Carthage; grandchildren Callie Heidi and Matthew; great grandchildren Lila Memorials may be made to FirstHealth Hospice Foundation Online condolences may be made at: PinesFunerals.com Services are entrusted to Fry & Prickett Funeral Home in Carthage Please enable JS and disable any ad blocker Ancient DNA Study Reveals a Stunning AnswerCarthage and its empire were established by Phoenicians but new research finds that the archenemies of Rome had little genetic link to their Levantine founders 2025Get email notification for articles from Ariel David FollowApr 23 2025Carthage is famed for its vast Mediterranean empire and its three bloody wars with Rome which ultimately ended in utter destruction Partly because their capital was annihilated by the Romans who then proceed to write the history books as victors are wont to do we know precious little about the origins and distant past of the Carthaginians a team of researchers has extracted the DNA of scores of people buried in ancient Punic settlements across the western and central Mediterranean Open gallery viewThe range of Carthaginian influence in 323 BCECredit: Talessman / Thomas A it seems the Punic people were exceptionally diverse and derived most of their ancestry from a genetic profile similar to that of ancient people from Sicily and Greece The second major ancestry component came from local North African populations and steadily grew as Carthage's political importance rose the Carthaginians maintained clear cultural links to their Levantine roots using the Phoenician alphabet and worshipping the Canaanite gods of their founders "This is the first known case where genetics shows a complete mismatch to cultural continuity," says Prof a leading expert on ancient DNA and one of the scholars who led the new study The DNA analysis suggests that Carthage was the first biologically cosmopolitan civilization essentially a cultural and religious "franchise" that the Phoenicians passed on to people with whom they had no genetic connection It also contrasts with what we know about the contemporaneous colonization of the Mediterranean by the Greeks who competed with the Carthaginians and didn't mix much with local populations in the settlements they seeded mostly of ancient Carthaginians and a few from neighboring groups for comparison The DNA samples came from skeletons buried at 14 Phoenician settlements in Iberia The remains ranged in date between the 6th-2nd centuries B.C.E. going up to and beyond the destruction of Carthage in 146 B.C.E This date range is crucial because it misses roughly the first four centuries of the Phoenician expansion leaving still many open questions on the origins of the Carthaginians the reason for this gap in the data is that cremation was the main form of burial in Phoenician colonies – so no DNA samples could be collected from the earlier period Open gallery viewExcavating the Dermech necropolis at CarthageCredit: Lorenzo Nigro the power of the Phoenician city-states waned as they and the rest of the Levant came under the control of powerful empires: the Assyrians one of Tyre's former colonies in modern-day Tunisia became the dominant power in the central and western Mediterranean vying for control of trade routes and territory with the Greeks This became the Punic empire that would challenge and almost bring Rome to its knees during Hannibal's invasion of Italy only to finally fall to the legions of the Roman Republic the precious dye on which these Levantine people held a virtual monopoly The term "Punic" was simply a latinization of the Greek word used by the Romans (archnemesis number two) and neither was preferred by the Phoenicians themselves an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority who was also part of the Mediterranean-wide hunt for Carthaginian DNA "Throughout time" – Regev says – "these people call themselves Canaanites," the umbrella term for the Bronze Age inhabitants of the Levant who are considered the ancestors of multiple ancient peoples including the Phoenicians and the Israelites in Greek it would say 'Phoenicians,' and in the Phoenician script it would say either 'Canaanites' as a general term or 'Sidonians,' 'Tyrians' and so on if they were identifying themselves by their city of origin," Regev says There are texts in North Africa where this identifcation as Canaanites survives through Christian times in the 5th century C.E All of this only highlights how suprising for the researchers it was that a people who strongly identified as Canaanites had little or no genetic connection to the Levant Phoenicians sampled in Beirut, Sidon and Ahziv – a Phoenician settlement on the northern coast of modern-day Israel – are genetically close to their Levantine neighbours and earlier local groups in the Bronze Age a population geneticist at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig But that does not seem to be the case for the Punic people those cultural Phoenicians who inhabited the central and western Mediterranean and whose genome is instead closest to that of Sicilian and Aegean populations from the Bronze and Iron Ages when and why this genetic shift occurred is unclear largely because of that gap in the data caused by the early Phoenician practice of burning the dead Open gallery viewFragment of a sculpture from the Punic settlement at Villaricos SpainCredit: Angel Martinez Levas / National Archaeological MuseumWe also don't know exactly where this new gene flow came from because we can't really distinguish between the DNA of Aegeans and native Sicilians in this period Was this a direct migratory wave of culturally Greek people who "went Phoenician" Or was it the result of earlier mixing of Mycenean Greeks and native Sicilians in the Bronze Age who then transmitted their genes to the Punic colonizers of the Italian island The most likely scenario is that the original Phoenician founders of the Punic colonies in the central and western Mediterranean were few in number and their Levantine ancestry was replaced by that of other populations a computer scientist and population geneticist from Reichman University in Herzliya who co-led the study The Punic colonies may have been so successful that they attracted local migrations while the decline and loss of independence of the Phoenician city-states in the Levant may have reduced or eliminated any population flow from them resulting in the original Levantine ancestry being "flushed out" "It's still there but it's at very low frequencies that we can't detect with the data and methods we are using," he adds the mixing occurred initially in Sicily and North Africa where there was more contact between the Greek/Sicilian population and Phoenicians The later and secondary addition of North African ancestry likely has to do with the rise to prominence of Carthage as the capital of the Punic empire But what is unusual is that this "radical mix" occurred pretty homogenously across the empire: it's not that the Phoenicians in Sicily mixed with the local Sicilians and Greeks while the ones in Tunisia intermarried with Africans The genetic analysis shows that this population churn was constant and spread all over the empire This is likely connected to the great mobility of the Carthaginians who created a "Mediterranean highway" of maritime trade Further evidence of this mobility is that within the roughly 200 genomes the researchers reconstructed there were several cases of distant relatives who hailed from different parts of the empire including two individuals who were second or third degree cousins with one coming from Birgi in Sicily and the other from Kerkouane Open gallery viewPunic grave offering: Decorated ostrich egg a former Carthaginian settlement.Credit: Angel Martinez Levas / National Archaeological Museum While close genetic links have never stopped humans from going to war with each other it's fair to note that there are some historical ironies in the discovery that Punic people were so closely related to the Greeks with whom they fought for three centuries for supremacy over Sicily who in the Odyssey called the Phoenicians "greedy knaves who bring countless trinkets in their black ship," would now wish to revise his harsh judgment the Greek historian Herodotus recounts that when the Persian rulers of the Levant ordered the Phoenician fleet to set sail to conquer Carthage the Phoenicians refused to comply saying they would never fight against their kin because despite the apparent genetic disconnect almost indistinguishable from its ancestral Phoenician roots Phoenicians and Carthaginians used the same set of red-painted pottery vessels for rituals; worshipped Baal Astarte (translated to Baal Hammon and Tanit in Carthage) and other Canaanite deities; had theophoric names that included those deities and shared the same language and script the outsize success of this Phoenician cultural package may explain the parallel downfall of its genetic lineage "Our intuitive expectation is that if a culture is successful then its carriers will also be successful breeders and will spread their genes," he says then the actual genetics of the people who brought it will be swamped because it will spread among those who have no original connection to it." The spread of Phoenician culture and religion can best be described as a franchise it doesn't necessarily send its people into a new place; a local person buys the franchise and adopts the entire cultural complex even though they are not derived from it," he tells Haaretz in a phone interview "This seems to be what we are seeing: people of diverse ancestry adopting Canaanite culture remembering being Canaanites and practicing Canaanite religion." Other examples include Christianity and Islam didn't usually include major population replacements And of course, there is still a major ongoing debate, often colored by less-than-sound political implications, on the degree of genetic connection between modern Jewish people and the original Israelites who lived in the ancient Levant the Carthaginians may have been the first to stumble into a new way of transmitting and spreading culture one that is at work still today in modern cosmopolitan and highly genetically diverse urban centers like New York or London And this extraordinary finding highlights again how little we know about the Punic people whose surviving history was written mainly by their Greek and Roman enemies and how many more discoveries about them may still be lying in wait The race starts at the Carthage south water tower goes to the historic water tower and returns to the south tower That’s a week that we celebrate our water professionals and the communities that they serve We’ve done for the past seven years that we raise funds to give to Water for People which is an organization that promotes the development of high quality drinking water all over the world.” Registration at cwep.com or Saturday at Carthage Water 627 West Centennial Avenue Day of until 7:45 AM at Dahlia Gardens Center in Aberdeen with family by her side Janice was born in Virginia on September 27 she was also preceded in death by her sister Jr.) of Carthage and Meredith Hawe of Sanford; 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