Around 310 B.C.E., Carthage was under siege by Agathocles of Syracuse and his army. According to the ancient historian ...

After decades of historians denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children as described in Greek accounts, a new study claims to have found ‘overwhelming’ evidence that the ancient ...

We step into ancient Carthage, where power was not built through conquest alone, but through trade, shipbuilding, and the most ambitious harbor the Mediterranean had ever seen. At the center of this ...

Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles For ancient Romans, “Carthage Must Be Destroyed” had to be the wave of the future if they were to become the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the spring of 146 B.C.E., the Roman commander Scipio Aemilianus ordered his army's final assault upon the very weakened North African city of Carthage. Surrounded on all sides by the Romans and ...

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 ...

The ancient nation of Carthage will be a playable faction in upcoming real-time strategy title Total War: Rome 2, publisher Sega announced today. Carthage is a trading state located in northern Africa ...

Tunisian inventors have looked to the past for inspiration in their designs for a more efficient way of capturing wind energy. A start-up has developed a new design of bladeless turbine, inspired by ...