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 ...
The Parthian Empire, also known as the Arsacid Empire, had a vast empire that stretched from the Mediterranean in the west to India and China in the east. The Han Empire came to power in 206 BC but ...