Trace the epic rivalry between Carthage and Rome through all three Punic Wars (264–146 BC), and discover why Rome ultimately emerged victorious. From Hannibal’s brilliant campaigns to Carthage’s naval ...

MANY LEGENDS attend the beginning of Carthage, an ancient city in modern-day Tunisia. Its founder, Queen Dido, a refugee from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon), is supposed to have made an ...

Barnsley, Eng.: Pen & Sword / Philadelphia: Casemate, 2024. Pp. x, 225+. Illus., maps, gloss, notes, biblio., index. £14.99/$24.95 paper. ISBN:1399078623 The ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

The ancient people of Carthage, located in modern Tunisia, did not have ancestry in common with the Levantine Phoenicians that established their culture, according to a new study. J. M. W. Turner, The ...

Deep-sea divers from the Society for the Documentation of Submerged Sites, working with Sicily’s Superintendency of the Sea, discovered the bronze helmet—this one complete with cheekpieces, an ...

The helmet, estimated to be about 2,265 years old, was found in the waters around the Aegadian Islands off the coast of Sicily, officials said. Alexandra Smielova Unsplash An extraordinarily ...

The helmet was discovered at the site of the Battle of the Egadi Islands. Sicilian Region Among the Egadi Islands, off Sicily’s west coast, divers have discovered a remarkably preserved Roman helmet.