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

This guaranteed a war with Rome, and a consular army, led by Africanus’ father (another Publius Cornelius Scipio), was en route to Spain when Hannibal wrongfooted everyone with his lightning march ...

*A splattered echo of the great Roman general, Scipio Africanus, who defeated Hannibal at Zama (202 B.C.) and was Roman proconsul in Spain. When the Roman Senate accused Scipio and his brother of ...

According to Livy, a Roman historian writing around the time of Jesus’ birth, the Roman general Scipio Africanus, having returned victorious from the Second Punic War in 201 B.C., ordered a ...

Now my navy, too, is splinters and ashes. The real Scipio Africanus conquered Spain, but mine died there in ignominy - and all because I completely underestimated Total War Rome: The Board Game.

Scipio Africanus: the Roman of West African descent After a disastrous defeat, however, the Romans managed to rebound. The Carthaginians lost their hold on Italy, as Rome won victories in Spain and ...

According to the traveler Javier Reverte, the Mediterranean has a “mythological and mystical soul, but above all, it has a poetic soul.” As the famous song says, that can be felt “from Algeciras to ...

146BC - Carthage is destroyed by Roman forces under Scipio Africanus. 2nd Century BC - Emergence of the Berber kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania. 24AD - Berber kingdoms become part of the Roman ...

146BC - Carthage is destroyed by Roman forces under Scipio Africanus. 2nd Century BC - Emergence of the Berber kingdoms of Numidia and Mauretania. 24AD - Berber kingdoms become part of the Roman ...

Alexander the Great brought elephants back to the Mediterranean world after campaigning in northern India, where elephants had been used for centuries in warfare – and would be for centuries to ...

Scipio Africanus Scipio Africanus is the only Roman general to halt Hannibal’s advance, resulting in the loss of Carthage’s greatest general. ©Domenico Beccafumi / Public domain – Original / License ...