The first battle that the Roman army fought in what is now Catalonia took place in 218 BC in the area around the Iberian town ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the ...

Long before Rome rose from its seven hills, before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, there was Carthage — the other majestic, ...

From Cato the Censor’s repeated demands in the Senate to Scipio Aemilianus’ ruthless campaign, the Third Punic War became a symbol of total war. The video traces Carthage’s rise, its ...

The Phoenicians developed innovations such as the first alphabet ... mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. This mixture of ancestries among Punic people ...

Then came the rivalry with Rome and the three Punic Wars ... Carthage itself, its myths, stories, cultures and families.” Gladiator Combat: A discovery in an English garden led to the first ...

Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis. From the 6th century onwards, it developed into a great trading empire covering much of the Mediterranean and was home to a brilliant ...