Carthage was the capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, and was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean. Its fall came at the end of the Third Punic War in ...

The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

from the founding and destruction of Carthage to the torture of the consul Regulus. Francis Ford Coppola used Rome as the guiding metaphor for his lifelong project Megalopolis. Our legal language is ...

Carthage was one of the great capitals of the ancient world; the heartbeat of the Punic Empire in the first millennium BC. But the fight it picked with Rome was its undoing. While the city would ...

Jesus believed in the imminent end of the world and the coming of the “Day of the Lord,” but that day never arrived, and ...

(The Conversation) — There may have been fear of gender-diverse people in the ancient world, but they played a crucial role. In Rome, they were viewed as vital to the city’s safety. (The ...

In the ancient Roman world ... The galli, another group that lived in the heart of the city of Rome, also blurred gender roles. They were males who had castrated their genitalia in dedication ...

On June 26 it will be ten years since the devastating attack at the Tunisian beach resort of Port El Kantaoui, in which an ...