But some 2,000 years ago, Carthage was razed to the ground by its rival, the Roman Republic. Carthaginians were murdered or sold into slavery, and the Romans built a new Carthage on the ruins.

In the ensuing Battle of Zama (202 B.C.), an exceptionally bloody affair, Hannibal’s forces went down to defeat, and Carthage ...

Set in motion by the dissolution of Carthage, the era of Roman Africa was one of remarkable prosperity. After a century of Punic Wars, the Romans laid siege to Carthage beginning in 149 B.C ...

AD 203, a young woman named Vibia Perpetua stepped into a Roman arena in Carthage, North Africa. The crowd jeered, wild ...

Rome forced Carthage to surrender ... a relief depicting a Montefortino-style Roman helmet decorated with three feathers. The battering ram spent some 2,300 years at the bottom of the sea.

The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived ... two from Sicily — may have been immigrants who arrived during the Roman period that followed the Third Punic War.