The ancient Greek city-state of Syracuse on the eastern coast of Sicily started as a colony and became a Greek metropolis.

The Mediterranean seafarers founded a small settlement here as part of their growing maritime empire. Later came the ...

Most travel on some kind of road everyday, but how did they get there? Here's the long and winding history of roads and ...

Today, the exploits of the Punic Wars are often retold as the springboard that propelled the Romans from city-state to ...

A team led by University of Pittsburgh physical anthropologist Jeffrey Schwartz has refuted the long-held claim that the Carthaginians carried out large-scale child sacrifice from the eighth to ...

The ship-shaking device was invented by the great mathematician and inventor Archimedes around 214 BCE. The Carthaginians used the device to ward off potential invasions by Roman ships. With the help ...

Akragas was razed by the Carthaginians in 406 B.C. and then left largely abandoned until 338 B.C., when the Carthaginians were defeated and the city was rebuilt. A century later, Akragas was the ...

Found 30 years ago buried upright at an archaeological site in Valencia, the sword has been restored and its secrets now ...

This ancient university town north-west of Madrid was first conquered by the Carthaginians in the 3rd century B.C. It then became a Roman settlement before being ruled by the Moors until the 11th ...

Ancient cultures as disparate as the Greeks and Chinese—including the Arabians, Phoenicians, Romans, and Carthaginians—gave in ways mirroring the tithe. Some scholars believe ancient cultures ...

Astrotourism is top of mind for travelers making special trips for phenomenal experiences in the sky—and with the recent ...

Carthaginians built the first incarnation of this fortress in 400 B.C. Romans and Arabs later used the fort and added to it with drawbridges, battery, hospitals, dungeons and more. Today ...