In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two ...
When the First Punic War broke out, they did not have a navy. By the end, Roman ships dominated the Mediterranean. When ...
before the Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome in the third and second centuries B.C. Related: 1,600-year-old coin discovered in Channel Islands features Roman emperor killed by invading Goths ...
Some Romans feared their prosperity could lead to other mischief, and Warmongers in the Roman Senate finally prodded Rome into the Third Punic War. Unlike the previous two wars, which involved ...