Napoleon is relatively unusual in western history for aligning himself with the brutal Hannibal – not Hannibal’s Roman enemy, ...

Revenues from the mines plus reparations from Carthage helped fund the expansion of its territory. “What our work shows is that the defeat of Hannibal and the rise of Rome is written in the ...

Found in Africa, Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis and once held the prestigious title of being one of the greatest capitals of the ancient world.

Modern Carthage is a residential suburb (population 26,000) of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. But in its heyday, the seaside town was the seat of the Carthaginians, whose North African empire gave ...

Carthage was allowed to keep only its territory in North Africa, losing its overseas empire permanently. It was also forced to surrender its fleet, which by this point was a strength to match any.