MANY LEGENDS attend the beginning of Carthage, an ancient city in modern-day Tunisia. Its founder, Queen Dido, a refugee from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon), is supposed to have made an ...

The Phoenician culture emerged around 3,100 years ago from coastal Mediterranean sites in modern-day Lebanon, Syria and Israel, also known as the Levant. Phoenicians gave the world its first alphabet ...

Archaeologist and historian Dr. Eve MacDonald gives us some background knowledge and historical context for Hannibal’s mythical journey through the Alps. Hannibal, the most famous of all Carthaginians ...

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.

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 ...