Imagine building a statue of your childhood bully in ... Zama and was soundly beaten by an inferior Roman force. Hannibal escaped, but Carthage would never be the same. Scipio earned the title ...

The Roman general Scipio and Carthaginian Hannibal dueled with each other during the last years of the third century B.C., ...

Hannibal’s home region of Carthage is now within Tunisia, the northernmost state in Africa and considered to be part of the Arabic world. According to an English translation of French-language ...

The Carthaginian general’s innovative military strategies in his struggle against Rome give us a glimpse into why his fame endures. Hannibal Barca was born in 247 BCE in Carthage, an ancient ...

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate the region, and Phoenician culture thrived farther west until its destruction in 146 BCE.

Hannibal commanded the forces of Carthage in their battle against the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War —which took place from 218 to 201 BC — during which he invaded Italy using ...

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 ...