Sasha Trubetskoy of Sasha’s Maps turned the roads of ancient Rome circa 125 AD into a modern city subway map using ... in about 25 days, Rome to Carthage in 4-5 days. via Jeffrey Zeldman ...

Here’s how it works. Founded by a seafaring people known as the Phoenicians, the ancient city of Carthage, located in modern-day Tunis in Tunisia, was a major center of trade and influence in ...

Carthaginians were murdered or sold into slavery, and the Romans built a new Carthage on the ruins. A bcontemporary depiction shows the ancient Carthaginians defending their city against the ...

The city was also the dominant power in the western Mediterranean and was an urban society run by aristocrats. Those living in this ancient capital enjoyed immense wealth thanks to Carthage’s ...

Miles breathtakingly narrates Carthage's rise to fame as an ancient cultural ... rebuilding as a Roman city by the emperor Augustus in the first century C.E. Illus.; maps. (July) ...

Carthage nearly conquered Italy. But it was Rome that finally prevailed. The city was later rebuilt by the Romans and is now a suburb of Tunis, with the pillars of ancient buildings protruding ...

The most powerful and prosperous of the Phoenicians’ independent city-states was Carthage ... and author of the forthcoming “Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire,” who was not ...