This ancient city has a history that stretches back nearly three millennia and it was once the heart of a powerful ...
The Third Punic War was little more than a single, drawn-out siege. Carthage’s overseas empire had been confiscated. There ...
The outbreak decimated urban populations, crippled tax collection, and halted Justinian's dreams of reuniting the Roman Empire. In 396 BCE, as Carthaginian forces laid siege to Syracuse ...