Long credited with the early alphabet (recent discoveries now push its origins back to Bronze Age Egypt, and its adaptation to multiple Mediterranean locales), their home territory in the Levant remains unevenly explored, while their
Punic colonies in the western Mediterranean are better known.
Afterward he would be recalled to Carthage to fight the battle of Zama (202 BCE), a victory for Rome and Scipio Africanus that brought an end to the Second
Punic War.
to 101 B.C., a period which bracketed the Second
Punic War.
Known as the
Punic Wars, it was to establish who was more powerful in the region.
He was leading the armies of Carthage, from north Africa, against the emerging Roman Empire during the second
Punic War in 218BC.
After the
Punic Wars, circa 150BC, some Phoenicians and people from the Mediterranean settled in the regions above.
I was caught by these words, which describe the wealth of the Tunisian heritage: "We are both the outcome of a
Punic culture and the betrayers of Carthage, Yamazighan and Arabs, foundational contributors to Christian thought and Muslims.
Virgil took the disconnected tales of Aeneas' wanderings, his vague association with the foundation of Rome and a personage of no fixed characteristics other than a scrupulous piety, and fashioned this into a compelling founding myth or national epic that at once tied Rome to the legends of Troy, explained the
Punic wars, glorified traditional Roman virtues and legitimized the Julio-Claudian dynasty as descendants of the founders, heroes and gods of Rome and Troy.
Carthage is best known for its intermittent military conflict with Rome called the
Punic Wars.
Toppen brings more than 30 years of management experience in the rubber industry in both the
punic and private sector.
71 (Vin Diesel) The actor has long wanted to do a series of films and videogames based on Hannibal and the
Punic Wars fought between Rome and Carthage from 264 BC to 146 BC.
Which city was destroyed by Rome in 146BC to end the
Punic Wars?
