The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., ...

During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army of 100,000 troops across the Alps. Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants ...

In the Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.), the Carthaginian General Hannibal deflected the Romans toward the center and then flanked ...

In the Battle of Cannae (216 B.C.), the Carthaginian General Hannibal deflected the Romans toward the center and then flanked ...

The Carthaginian general’s innovative military strategies in his struggle against Rome give us a glimpse into why his fame endures. Hannibal Barca was born in 247 BCE in Carthage, an ancient ...

And now, staring into the mists of antiquity, he imagines a scene that may have unfolded here 2,235 years ago: the Carthaginian general Hannibal mustering his downcast troops during their brazen ...

Hannibal’s home region of Carthage is now within Tunisia, the northernmost state in Africa and considered to be part of the Arabic world. According to an English translation of French-language ...

Mine did—then I wrote a novel about him and he changed. My adolescent crush was on Hannibal of Carthage, the brilliant military commander mostly known for crossing the Alps with an army of ...

The defeat at the Battle of Cannae. This battle was part of the Second Punic War, which had begun two years earlier as Rome and Carthage vied for control of the western Mediterranean. Shortly after it ...

Dexter Hoyos, the author of several books on Carthage and on its greatest general, Hannibal, said that nothing in the accounts of Greek and Roman historians indicated a steady post-settlement flow ...