1. Punic, not Phoenician.<p>2. Why is this surprising? At some point in time half of Iberian peninsula belonged to Punic Republic.<p>3. It's mtDNA, not Y-DNA. Men travelling to distant lands usually marry local women.<p>4. Even the story of the foundation of Carthage tells that they stopped in Cyprus and took 80 temple prostitutes as wives:<p><i>"Queen Elissa (Dido) along with some nobles to flee the city of Tyre westward in a fleet of ships carrying royal gold.[27][28] At Cyprus, four score temple maidens were taken aboard the ships.[29][30] Then her fleet continues on, landing in North Africa to found Carthage."</i><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Carthage#Dido_and_the_foundation_of_Carthage" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Carthage#Dido_and_t...</a>
actually, Lebanon back then did not exist. the whole region, which is now Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, and Jordan was known as the Land of Syria.<p>So, Phoenicians are Ancient Syrians who lived on the coast area of syria (which part of it right now is called Lebanon)<p>The Alphabet system was created in city of Ugarit, which is located inside Modern Syria