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 ...

For years the claims of ancient Greeks and Romans that Carthaginians sacrificed their own children were dismissed as dark propaganda, but a new study claims to prove the ancient residents of modern ...

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 ...

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 ...

The remains of a sunken warship recently found in the Mediterranean Sea may confirm the site of a major ancient battle in which Rome trounced Carthage. The year was 241 B.C. and the players were the ...