The inhabitants of Carthage were long thought to have derived from Levantine Phoenicians. But an eight-year study suggests ...

Europe: In 510 BC, after a protracted struggle with its Etruscan kings ... Cyrus sought to make his Achaemenid Empire the greatest of them all - a true 'universal empire'. By the time of Darius ...

In fact, the Roman Empire, a mostly land-based power, recognized the sophistication of the Carthaginian ... the greatest ...