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The Story of Carthage Isn’t Necessarily What the Romans Committed to History
A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...
Total War: Rome 2 is out now; here's our Total War: Rome 2 review. The Carthaginians, as you may well know, hail from north Africa and Carthage itself is cited in modern-day Tunisia. Nowadays it might ...
A recent study suggests that mercenaries from northern Europe fought alongside the Greeks against the Carthaginians in the years 480 B.C. and 409 B.C.—a fact largely ignored by most history books.
It is a symptom of the deplorable state of intellectual life today that readers of this magazine can guess the lineaments of the story told in Hannibal the instant they read early in its pages that ...
Ancient Carthage, which existed from around 800 BC to 146 BC, was a Phoenician nation that prospered in northern Africa, and at one time was a great country with excellent culture and enormous wealth ...
In 146 BC, as the Romans conquered the vast Carthaginian Empire in North Africa, thousands of people fled their homeland. Now, science is suggesting some may have taken refuge thousands of miles away ...
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