During the Second Punic War, the famous Carthaginian general Hannibal led his forces to numerous victories. But did he really take war elephants across the Alps?

This illuminating debut chronicle from historian MacDonald aims to tell the story of Carthage free from the “othering” propaganda spread by its rivals and eventual annihilators, the Romans. The author ...

Chapter thirteen of Gustave Flaubert’s North African fever-dream novel Salammbô is titled “Moloch.” The book, a strange reverie about a priestess of ancient Carthage, isn’t the type of exoticism we ...

ROME, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An ancient Roman relic from the almost 2,300-year-old naval battle in which Rome defeated its archenemy Carthage has been recovered from waters off western Sicily, regional ...