On this date: Two millennia later, the 3rd Punic War ends
In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
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Third Punic War: Carthage Must Be Destroyed
While Rome won the Second Punic War, it struck a fundamental blow to Rome’s martial manpower and military resolve. The ...
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2,000-year-old battering ram from Roman battle discovered deep in Mediterranean
The civilization was at loggerheads with the Roman Republic in the third and ... Carthage was defeated in all three of these wars, which became known as the Punic Wars, and fell into decline.
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What’s the Roman salute? Here’s the history of Musk’s controversial hand gesture
There’s no evidence that there was ever such a thing as a ‘Roman salute’ in antiquity ... in ancient Rome at the time of the Second Punic War (against Carthage which lasted from 218 ...
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On this date: Two millennia later, the 3rd Punic War ends
All three of the wars resulted in Roman victory ... up the fact that the Third Punic War had never officially ended. This was at a time when the Italian Republic and the Republic of Tunisia ...