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

Long before Rome rose from its seven hills, before Caesar crossed the Rubicon, there was Carthage ... the people buried in Punic cities between the sixth and second centuries BCE carried ...

index. $37.95 paper. ISBN:0415327431 Cannae is an attempt to apply the methodology developed by John Keegan in his ground-breaking The Face of Battle (1976), to the most notable battle of the Second ...

And so it transpires. Dr Reich and his colleagues gathered genetic data from 17 skeletons dug up in Carthage itself, from a further 86 unearthed at other Punic settlements in north Africa ...

Individuals with North African ancestry lived next to and intermingled with a majority of people of mainly Sicilian-Aegean ancestry in all sampled Punic sites, including Carthage. This mixture of ...

The inhabitants of Carthage were long ... from the sixth to the second centuries B.C., Levantine Phoenicians made only a negligible genetic contribution to Punic colonies.