Archaeologist and historian Dr. Eve MacDonald gives us some background knowledge and historical ... had been defeated in the First Punic War, when he and his two younger brothers set off with ...

The Punic Wars, which lasted from 264 to 146 B.C., transformed Rome from a small, loosely aligned federation into a Mediterranean superpower. It's a story worth retelling, but because the wars ...

The conflicts known as the Punic Wars were so brutal that when Rome finally managed to defeat Carthage decisively, Roman legions razed Carthage, killed all its inhabitants, and salted the earth to ...

Researchers report evidence of lead-silver mining in Carthage during the Punic wars, which may have conferred economic strength during and after the wars. The Punic wars, in which the powers of ...

Over the course of almost 140 years they fought what became known as the Punic Wars: (The name Punic derives from the Romans’ word for the Carthaginians, Punicus or Poenicus, which refers to ...