Carthage was the capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, and was one of the most important trading hubs of the ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic similarity to their counterparts in the Levant ...

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Then came the rivalry with Rome and the three Punic Wars, which ended in 146 B.C. after a brutal siege as the Romans razed Carthage, destroyed its libraries and, tradition says, sowed its ground ...

Rome's great rival was Carthage, a Phoenician colony in northern Africa, which controlled most of the trade of the western Mediterranean. It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed ...

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Speculation on the crossing place stretches back more than two millennia to when Rome and Carthage, a North African city-state in what is now Tunisia, were superpowers vying for supremacy in the ...