A groundbreaking study from Harvard University reveals that the ancient people of Carthage were genetically closer to Greeks than to their Phoenician founders, reshaping our understanding of ...

Archaeologists in Spain have uncovered an elephant bone from 2,200 years ago, and they believe it belonged to an animal that ...

We talk to Creative Assembly about 25 years of Total War, the series' origins, early evolution, and something about flaming pigs?

The Carthaginian general famously used elephants during the Punic Wars. But until now, archaeologists had never found skeletal remains linking the animals to the conflict ...

Archaeologists say a 2,200-year-old specimen is the first direct evidence of how the Carthaginian war machine used the giant ...

In his role as general, Hannibal led the Carthaginians' battle against the Roman Republic in the three Punic Wars, which ...

Everything we know about these famous war animals has come from textual sources, so this is a significant new find.

Carthage and Rome had amicable relations. But as their respective spheres of influence grew, Mediterranean geopolitics drew them into war.

Archaeologists working near Seville unearthed a fossilized ivory fragment and a bronze harness fitting and they've found a bone that could be from Hannibal’s war elephant.

It’s time to return to Tunisia, the Mediterranean’s most intriguing country - As tourists slowly return to the North African country, Phil Thomas uncovers its Ottoman tiles, ancient amphitheatres and ...