In the ensuing Battle of Zama (202 B.C.), an exceptionally bloody affair, Hannibal’s forces went down to defeat, and Carthage was forced to accept Roman sovereignty.

Hannibal's troops killed 70,000-80,000 of Rome's 86,000 soldiers, making it the most lethal day of warfare until World War I. Carthage kicked Roman armies around for nearly a decade after Cannae.

Hannibal’s home region of Carthage is now within Tunisia, the northernmost state in Africa and considered to be part of the Arabic world. According to an English translation of French-language ...

Archaeologists in Ugento, Italy, uncovered city walls, lead sling bullets, and iron bolts, offering fresh evidence of a ...

EXCLUSIVE: Now that the SAG-AFTRA strike is ending, why not come out with elephant-sized ambition? Netflix has attached Denzel Washington to play the ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal in an ...

Netflix has attached Denzel Washington to play the ancient Carthaginian general Hannibal in an untitled epic drama that will reteam him with Antoine Fuqua for Netflix. That reunites back star and ...

His 1956 essay began with the all-time Carthaginian money quote: “Few historical problems have produced more unprofitable discussion than that of Hannibal’s pass over the Alps.” ...

How Hannibal's Carthage spread Phoenician culture without leaving a genetic trace ... North African ancestry entered the mix among Punic people, reflecting the rise of Carthage after 500 BCE.

Some 16 years earlier, in 218 B.C., Hannibal had brought his army, including his war elephants, across the Alps and had won several battles in Italy, even while Scipio, the younger of the two, was ...