Carthaginian bronze coins discovered earlier in Norway have revealed ancient trade secrets and the illegal sale of Punic ...

In a study published in the journal Libyan Studies, Professor Håkon Roland and Dr. Paolo Visonà examined the 2022 case dealing with the seizure of 30 Punic bronze coins by Norwegian authorities. The ...

Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire. Joseph Mallord William Turner, c 1815. Credit: The National Gallery, CC BY-NC-SA Remember when Australians paid in shillings and pence?

A key episode of the Punic Wars has emerged from the waters near the small Sicilian island of Pantelleria as archaeologists discovered a cluster of more than 30 ancient anchors. Found at a depth ...

Researchers report evidence of lead-silver mining in Carthage during the Punic wars, which may have conferred economic strength during and after the wars. The Punic wars, in which the powers of ...

Carthage, Tunisia (WHTM) In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two major powers in the Mediterranean Sea area vied ...

The helmet, estimated to be about 2,265 years old, was found in the waters around the Aegadian Islands off the coast of Sicily, officials said. Alexandra Smielova Unsplash An extraordinarily ...

The Phoenician culture emerged in the Bronze Age city-states of the Levant, developing prominent innovations such as the first alphabet (from which many present-day writing systems derive). By the ...

Ancient DNA analysis challenges our understanding of the ancient Phoenician-Punic civilization. An international team of researchers analyzing genome-wide data from 210 ancient individuals has found ...