The Phoenician culture emerged around 3,100 years ago from coastal Mediterranean sites in modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel, also known as the Levant. Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet ...

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

As a result, the end of the Pyrrhic War (280–275 BC), the city counted among the great powers of the Mediterranean world. The final part examines the state of Rome and Italy on the eve of the First ...

the Third Punic War became a symbol of total war. The video traces Carthage’s rise, its historic clashes with Rome, and the dramatic finale that reshaped the Mediterranean world. We went to the ...

Think Rome and Carthage from 264 to 146. For 118 years, they fought three Punic Wars ... side to make war. In contrast, there was not another American Civil War, because after the invasions ...

The first battle that the Roman army fought in what is now Catalonia took place in 218 BC in the area around the Iberian town ...

The Carthaginian empire left its mark in history, particularly well-known for the three large-scale "Punic Wars" with the ...

A couple of years after ... The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought over control of the strategic islands of Sicily and Corsica. The Sicilians embroiled the rising republic of Rome in ...