Environmental damage is increasingly visible at the ruins of the former trading hub, located in modern-day Tunisia ...
Historian Josephine Quinn explores how the Phoenicians and their great colony, Carthage, built a maritime empire that once ...
Along the coast of Tunisia sit the ruins of a once-great city whose power rivaled Rome: ancient Carthage. Today, the city’s sacred sacrificial site collects dust. Millennia ago, it collected gold, ...
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Why Hannibal’s Genius Wasn’t Enough to Defeat Rome
He crossed the Alps, crushed Roman legions, and terrified an empire—but still lost. This is the story of Hannibal Barca, ...
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The Ancient War That Decided the Fate of the Mediterranean
Two ancient powers fought for control of the known world The Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome were a century long ...
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 ...
A bronze battering ram recovered from the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea. Photo: Soprintendenza del Mare An Italian cultural heritage outfit has announced the recovery of a Roman battering ram from ...
A bladeless wind energy convertor inspired by the sailing boats of Ancient Carthage is set to breeze past traditional turbines in terms of efficiency, according to its Tunisian developers. A Tunisian ...
Archaeologists excavating the sacred tophet site in Carthage, a place of child sacrifice, found gold coins left as offerings 2,300 years ago, photos show. Photo from Tunisia’s Ministry of Cultural ...
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