No peace treaty ending the Third Punic War was ever signed. At the time it may have seemed superfluous, given the total destruction of Carthage, but in the 20th century someone brought up the fact ...

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and ...

Then came the rivalry with Rome and the three Punic Wars, which ended in 146 B.C. after a brutal siege as the Romans razed Carthage, destroyed its libraries and, tradition says, sowed its ground ...

The rivalry between Rome and Carthage for control of the western Mediterranean culminated in the three Punic Wars, fought between the two powers from 264 B.C. to 146 B.C., ending in Roman victory.

Rome forced Carthage to surrender. But the fragile peace was short-lived: Over the next century, Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.

Carthage was defeated in all three of these wars, which became known as the Punic Wars ... the standard and customary style for Roman soldiers at the time. This is not the first time researchers ...

Whether the Punic settlers kept themselves apart for reasons of snobbery, prejudice or something else remains mysterious. Carthage’s end was brutal. Two third-century wars with Rome stripped it ...

Rome forced Carthage to surrender. But the fragile peace was short-lived: Over the next century, Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time.