“Our project is a bit like Hannibal’s traverse. It’s something new that nobody wanted to do—or even thought of doing.” Tomas van Houtryve The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought ...

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 ...

A new DNA study is changing what we thought we knew about one of the ancient world’s great civilizations—the Phoenicians and ...

During the early part of the Second Punic War the Carthaginian Hannibal was ... The victory earned Livius the first triumph awarded for the war with Hannibal, and thus total vindication. Nevertheless, ...

The advance of the Carthaginian general Hannibal on Rome during the Second Punic War ... was bringing war elephants across the Alps to aid his invasion — probably the first elephants ever ...