During the Second Punic War, which lasted from 218 to 201 B.C., the Carthaginian general Hannibal led his army of 100,000 troops across the Alps. Included in his ranks were 40 war elephants, a ...

The news last week that the mayors of Rome and Carthage have signed a treaty in Tunis officially ending the Third Punic War comes as no surprise, since the hostilities ended in 146 B.C. when the Ro… ...

The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought over control of the strategic islands of Sicily and Corsica. ... Yes, he thought, my army will be like a fluid enveloping all stationary objects, ...

“The destruction was dated around the end of the third century B.C.E., the moment where the Pyrenees were involved in the Second Punic War and the passage of Hannibal’s troops,” Oriol Olesti ...

The Second Punic War saw Hannibal deliver the worst defeat by any army against another in recorded history at the Battle of Cannae. Hannibal's troops killed 70,000-80,000 of Rome's 86,000 soldiers ...

The loss of some wars, like the Punic Wars, resulted in the birth of empires. […] Skip to content. Investing ... the Karen National Union is still at war with the Myanmar army.

Charred stable remains from the Punic War period provide a glimpse into life in the Pyrenees ... Victims of a violent fire that may have been related to the passage of the Carthaginian army, ...

A recent study by historian Connor Beattie, published in the Journal of Ancient History, reveals a little-known but crucial ...

Carthage, Tunisia (WHTM) In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two major powers in the Mediterranean Sea are… ...