Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn ...
Hannibal’s March on Rome is the documentary of General Hannibal Barca set in the year 218 BC. It explores an iconic event in ancient history where Hannibal led his Carthaginian army on a dangerous ...
Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.
A scene from Hannibal vs Rome, which shows truth can be stranger than fiction If ever there was testimony to the homely that the truth is stranger than fiction, the story of Carthaginian General ...
Greg Jenner is joined in ancient North Africa by classicist Professor Josephine Quinn and comedian Darren Harriott to learn about Hannibal of Carthage and his war with Rome. Located in modern-day ...
Hannibal Barca crossed the Alps, defeated Rome’s armies, and shook the ancient world with victories at Trebia, Trasimene, and ...
Amazing what you can learn from horse manure. In 218 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca led an army of more than 30,000 men, 15,000 horses and mules and – famously – about 40 elephants ...
One of the most pivotal battles in Western history, the Battle of Cannae, was fought 2,232 years ago to the year. The Battle of Cannae occurred on August 2, 216 BCE in southeast Italy between ...
What if Hannibal had won? What if Carthage rather than Rome had become the dominant power in the Mediterranean? Dexter Hoyos believes that Carthage was capable of the same civilization-building ...
Ancient historians gave the name “Hannibalic” to the war between Carthage and Rome at the end of the third century B.C—known to us as the Second Punic War—to acknowledge that one man had set it in ...
Archaeologist and historian Dr. Eve MacDonald gives us some background knowledge and historical context for Hannibal’s mythical journey through the Alps. Hannibal, the most famous of all Carthaginians ...