(Phys.org) —After decades of scholarship denying that the Carthaginians sacrificed their children, new research has found 'overwhelming' evidence that this ancient civilisation really did carry out ...

Fourth-year Phoebe Duncan first encountered the script for Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians during a study-abroad program at Trinity College in Dublin. She read it in a class on Irish theater. It ...

MANY LEGENDS attend the beginning of Carthage, an ancient city in modern-day Tunisia. Its founder, Queen Dido, a refugee from the Phoenician city of Tyre (now in Lebanon), is supposed to have made an ...

Archaeologist and historian Dr. Eve MacDonald gives us some background knowledge and historical context for Hannibal’s mythical journey through the Alps. Hannibal, the most famous of all Carthaginians ...

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 ...

A recent study suggests that mercenaries from northern Europe fought alongside the Greeks against the Carthaginians in the years 480 B.C. and 409 B.C.—a fact largely ignored by most history books.