In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...

This ancient city has a history that stretches back nearly three millennia and it was once the heart of a powerful Mediterranean empire until its major demise by the Romans.

In the ensuing Battle of Zama (202 B.C.), an exceptionally bloody affair, Hannibal’s forces went down to defeat, and Carthage was forced to accept Roman sovereignty. Hannibal survived the clash ...

The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal ... (“Punic” denotes the Phoenicians who settled Carthage.) To all appearances the lines their lives traced diverged widely, since in their ...