A 2,000-year-old battering ram sunk during the First Punic War has been discovered off the coast of Sicily. The bronze fragment of the ram, called a rostrum, was found 80 metres below sea level ...

All parts of the Greek and later Roman world were built upon exploiting either their conquered foes or those with the simple misfortune of being born in the wrong place at the wrong time. Despite its ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Study challenges long-held assumptions about the Mediterranean Phoenician-Punic civilization, one of the most influential ...

The Phoenician civilization emerged in the city-states of the Levant during the Bronze Age, standing out for innovations such as the first alphabet ... to as “Punic” by the Romans. Their legacy is ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet ... the three large-scale "Punic Wars" with the rising ...