Fourth-year Phoebe Duncan first encountered the script for Frank McGuinness’s Carthaginians during a study-abroad program at Trinity College in Dublin. She read it in a class on Irish theater. It ...

Ancient Carthage, which existed from around 800 BC to 146 BC, was a Phoenician nation that prospered in northern Africa, and at one time was a great country with excellent culture and enormous wealth ...

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 ...

Modern Carthage is a residential suburb (population 26,000) of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. But in its heyday, the seaside town was the seat of the Carthaginians, whose North African empire gave ...

The remains of a sunken warship recently found in the Mediterranean Sea may confirm the site of a major ancient battle in which Rome trounced Carthage. The year was 241 B.C. and the players were the ...

ONE of the few enduring plays of the Troubles, Carthaginians, by Frank McGuinness, runs at the Everyman Palace Theatre from Mar 26-31. The play, set in a graveyard, is an elegy to the Bloody Sunday ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The remains of a sunken warship recently found in the Mediterranean Sea may confirm the site of a ...