Sure, you’d expect the best Roman games to feature a great deal of military might, after all war is what forged the Imperium ...

Archaeologists in Ugento, Italy, uncovered city walls, lead sling bullets, and iron bolts, offering fresh evidence of a ...

The most challenging part of the Critérium du Dauphiné is now behind us, but are the riders in for an easy final stage? Of course not! The eighth stage still offers ample opportunities for spectacle, ...

Dexter Hoyos, the author of several books on Carthage and on its greatest general, Hannibal, said that nothing in the accounts of Greek and Roman historians indicated a steady post-settlement flow ...

And now, staring into the mists of antiquity, he imagines a scene that may have unfolded here 2,235 years ago: the Carthaginian general Hannibal mustering his downcast troops during their brazen ...

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.

They could afford this because the war had been tilting in their favor for some time: the Carthaginians had lost Hispania, Hasdrubal’s expedition had ended poorly, and Scipio Africanus was already in ...

Hannibal first came into prominence in 219 BCE when the Carthaginian army under his command attacked the city of Saguntum (in modern Spain), triggering the Second Punic War with Rome.