Intersection. Junction. Link. These words aptly describe Sicily’s crossroad role in the Mediterranean Sea. Given Sicily’s location, empires, cultures, and trade routes crisscrossed this strategically ...

two from Sicily — may have been immigrants who arrived during the Roman period that followed the Third Punic War. Overwhelmingly, the main ancestry of the Phoenicians studied was Greek ...

Instead, the people buried in Punic cities between the sixth and second centuries BCE carried DNA that was overwhelmingly local. Their ancestry pointed not to Tyre or Sidon, but to Sicily ...

Tomas van Houtryve The First Punic War (264-241 B.C.) was fought over control of the strategic islands of Sicily and Corsica. The Sicilians embroiled the rising republic of Rome in their squabbles ...

Tensions between the Greek city-states of Sicily and Carthage had been ongoing for centuries ... This strategy was later mirrored by Roman general Scipio Africanus during the Second Punic War.

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The Triumph of Rome over Sicily, by Jacopo Ripanda (in the Palazzo dei Conservatori ... she was equated with Cybele and given a sanctuary on the Capitol. Map of the Second Punic War. Credit: ...

Sicily Superintendence of the Sea In ... Rome would go on to fight a second and third war against the Punic people, winning each time. “It was very costly, both in terms of human life and ...

In 241 BCE, one of the most decisive battles in ancient Mediterranean history took place off the coast of Sicily ... dismantled following the Third Punic War. It was this triumph that enabled ...