Polybius (c. 200 – 118 BC) was a Greek historian and politician who is best known for his work “The Histories,” which covers the period of ancient Mediterranean history from...
On a summer’s day in 202 BC, Roman forces and their Carthaginian counterparts met on the open fields of Zama (located in modern-day Tunisia) to wrestle each other for supreme...
Established by the Phoenicians of Tyre in the ninth century BC, Carthage (located in modern-day Tunisia) was once a small outpost on the Mediterranean that morphed into a city-state. Right...
For many centuries, the city-state of Carthage dominated much of the ancient world. After being founded by a group of Phoenicians – believed to have been led by the legendary...