For 118 years, they fought three Punic Wars until greater Roman growth and vitality finally ... or both lacked the necessary military clout to destroy their adversary’s army, march on the ...

The renovation of a football pitch in Austria’s capital has led to the discovery of a Roman mass grave housing the remains of ...

The film depicts the strategic military maneuvers during the Second Punic War, focusing on the conflict between Rome and Hannibal. A Roman senator reflects on his past, where he saved his father ...

Tomas van Houtryve The First Punic War (264-241 ... Hannibal’s army spent 15 years marauding through the Italian peninsula. “His men slaughtered 50,000 Roman soldiers at the Battle of Cannae ...

This policy – quite different from that of most empires, who turned the conquered into slaves or serfs –expanded Roman influence and manpower ... state of Rome and Italy on the eve of the First Punic ...