We then pointed out that this episode, which determined Rome’s victory in the First Punic War, was marked by a series of land and naval battles and that in one of them the Carthaginian fleet achieved ...

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 ...

Rome’s victory in the skirmish, officially called the Battle of the Aegates, brought an end to the First Punic War, the initial conflict in a series of wars between the two ancient powers.

Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet and ... cultures and families.” Ancient Rome infamously destroyed Carthage in 146 B.C.E. during the Third Punic War. As legend has it, the Romans ...

Some Romans feared their prosperity could lead to other mischief, and Warmongers in the Roman Senate finally prodded Rome into the Third Punic War. Unlike the previous two wars, which involved ...

Rome was the rising power expanding outward at the time of the first Punic wars. Carthage was more interested in pushing trade and guarding its trading monopoly in Western Mediterranean, whereas Rome ...

Then came the rivalry with Rome and the three Punic Wars, which ended in 146 B.C. after ... Gladiator Combat: A discovery in an English garden led to the first direct evidence that man fought ...