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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... NONFICTION: HISTORY Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization by Richard Miles For ancient Romans, “Carthage Must Be Destroyed ...

Carthage and Rome had amicable relations. But as their respective spheres of influence grew, Mediterranean geopolitics drew ...

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 ...

CARTHAGE HAD EXISTED for over half a millennium when the Romans destroyed it in 146 BCE. Located in a natural harbor on the coast of modern day Tunisia, it was for centuries the great maritime power ...

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 ...

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 ...

From the parapets of Le Kef, on a rocky spur in northwestern Tunisia, one can see deep into the mountains of Algeria, whose border is a short distance away. A fort of some kind has existed here since ...

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 ...