A major Mediterranean power and a rival to Rome, this ancient capital is one to behold. Found in Africa, Carthage was founded in the 9th century B.C. on the Gulf of Tunis and once held the ...

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The ancient Greek essayist Plutarch used “parallel ... (“Punic” denotes the Phoenicians who settled Carthage.) To all appearances the lines their lives traced diverged widely, since in ...

The ruins site of the Shuomen ancient port in Wenzhou, a city in east China's Zhejiang province, was discovered by archeologists between 2021 and 2022, bringing back to life the bustling scene of ...

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From ancient times to the present, urban fires have wrought havoc on cities, causing destruction and death on a massive scale ...

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Move on a hundred years, and leading Roman moralists and historians (often the same people) were taking Carthage’s destruction as the tipping point between the reign of the good old solid Roman values ...