city of Carthage near modern Tunis. The two cities fought three wars, known as the "Punic Wars," of which Second Punic War (218 201 B.C.) was the most desperate. In 218 B.C. Hannibal Barca brought an ...

Carthage, once the master of “the Middle ... they may pay with a five dinar note featuring the tragic yet heroic gaze of ...

The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., the final phase of what we now know as the Second Punic War.

Hannibal taught us to build a support system. Carthaginian general Hannibal Barca brought the Roman Republic to his knees during the Second Punic War. In 218 BCE, he famously crossed the Alps with ...