The Carthaginians made some use of elephants during the First Punic War, such as in the battle at Bagradas River (255 BCE) in modern Tunisia. Here, around 100 elephants helped to crush a Roman ...

A while ago, we dedicated an article to the long siege that the Romans subjected Lilybaeum to, the last Carthaginian stronghold in Sicily. We then pointed out that this episode, which determined ...

HUD and FBI are departing their brutalist architecture style headquarters in Washington, keeping in the spirit of an ...

The Battle of the Egadi Islands in 241BC brought the First Punic War to an end after 20 years of fighting.]The victory came despite Carthage’s traditional naval dominance.

It was used in the Battle of the Aegates, the team stated, a naval battle between Rome and Carthage that marked the end of the first Punic War in 241 BCE, after 23 years of conflict between the ...

First Punic War 264-241 BCE (23 years) Second Punic War 218-201 BCE (17 Years) Third Punic War 149-146 BCE (4 Years) (The name Punic derives from the Romans’ word for the Carthaginians, Punicus ...

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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.

The Carthaginians made some use of elephants during the First Punic War, such as in the battle at Bagradas River (255 BCE) in modern Tunisia. Here, around 100 elephants helped to crush a Roman ...