This illuminating debut chronicle from historian MacDonald aims to tell the story of Carthage free from the “othering” propaganda spread by its rivals and eventual annihilators, the Romans. The author ...

In the spring of 146 B.C.E., the Roman commander Scipio Aemilianus ordered his army's final assault upon the very weakened North African city of Carthage. Surrounded on all sides by the Romans and ...

A University professor will share knowledge gained from excavations in the ancient city of Carthage with interested students and faculty today. The latest lecture in the 2003 series offered by the ...

Archaeologists excavating the sacred tophet site in Carthage, a place of child sacrifice, found gold coins left as offerings 2,300 years ago, photos show. Photo from Tunisia’s Ministry of Cultural ...

CARTHAGE, Tunisia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Saber Sessi was working the night shift at a municipality vehicle depot in Carthage, Tunisia, when he signed off on five bulldozers in the early hours ...

ROME, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An ancient Roman relic from the almost 2,300-year-old naval battle in which Rome defeated its archenemy Carthage has been recovered from waters off western Sicily, regional ...

Carthage Tunisia Visiting the ancient site of Carthage is one of the best and most necessary things to do in Tunis. Visiting ...

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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 ...

Back in the day, which was a long time ago, Carthage was one of the most important places in the Mediterranean. It was founded in the 9 th Century B.C. and reached its height in the 4 th Century B.C.