DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

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 ...

We find surprisingly little direct genetic contribution from levantine phoenicians to western and central mediterranean punic ...

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

During the early part of the Second Punic War the Carthaginian Hannibal was literally unbeatable, defeating every army the Romans could throw at him in the battles of the Ticinus and the Trebbia (218 ...

Hannibal, the Carthaginian commander of folklore, is best known for marching 40 war elephants across the alps on his blood-thirsty quest to defeat Rome. Two years before he famously traversed the ...

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...

In 218 BC, a Carthaginian army of ninety thousand men and three dozen elephants set out to cross the Alps to challenge the might of Rome. The exact route chosen by Hannibal, its charismatic ...