Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

A study of Roman coins has shown how the defeat of Hannibal and the Carthaginian empire led to coinage spreading across the Roman Empire from silver mines in Spain. According to historical accounts ...

HANNIBAL Barca is widely seen as one of the greatest military commanders to have ever walked the Earth. The Carthagian general's march across the Pyrenees and the Alps has echoed through the ages.

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Before Rome there was Carthage. An empire stretching across the top of North Africa and into Spain, Carthaginians viewed the ...

Under the Romans, the world became connected like never before. Within a single empire, lands from Scotland to the Middle East fell under one roof. Founded somewhere around 625 BC, the Roman Empire ...

The Roman Empire was a vast and sprawling governance that spanned Scotland to the Middle East. Founded in around 625 BC, it went on to become the greatest power in the world, led by a variety of ...

As the United States and China face off in the 21st-century clash of civilizations, we need to delve back into history to see whether there are parallels we can learn from. I have previously pointed ...

A new study may finally lay to rest the millennia-old conjecture that the ancient empire of Carthage regularly sacrificed its youngest citizens. An examination of the remains of Carthaginian children ...

'Carthage must be destroyed'—the title of Richard Miles's book was the constant theme of the Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.). In the last years of his long life, Cato became ...

He is seen as one of the greatest commanders in military history and famously marched across the Alps and into Italy HANNIBAL Barca is widely seen as one of the greatest military commanders to have ...