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It is a symptom of the deplorable state of intellectual life today that readers of this magazine can guess the lineaments of the story told in Hannibal the instant they read early in its pages that ...

CARTHAGE HAD EXISTED for over half a millennium when the Romans destroyed it in 146 BCE. Located in a natural harbor on the coast of modern day Tunisia, it was for centuries the great maritime power ...

'Carthage must be destroyed'—the title of Richard Miles's book was the constant theme of the Roman statesman Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 B.C.). In the last years of his long life, Cato became ...

“Carthage Must Be Destroyed: The Rise and Fall of an Ancient Civilization” (Penguin Group), by Richard Miles: For ancient Romans, “Carthage Must Be Destroyed” had to be the wave of the future if they ...

Before Rome there was Carthage. An empire stretching across the top of North Africa and into Spain, Carthaginians viewed the Mediterranean as an extension of their empire and for hundreds of years ...

As the United States and China face off in the 21st-century clash of civilizations, we need to delve back into history to see whether there are parallels we can learn from. I have previously pointed ...

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Carthage, Tunisia (WHTM) In 1985, a war came to an official end – 2,131 years after its final battle. For centuries during the pre-Christian era, two major powers in the Mediterranean Sea area vied ...