The most famous crucifixion in the world took place when ... t aware of the practice until they encountered it while fighting Carthage during the Punic Wars in the third century B.C. For the ...

The Romans practiced crucifixion - literally, "fixed to a cross" - for nearly a millennium. It was a public, painful, and slow form of execution, and used as a way to deter future crimes and ...

Carthaginian parents ritually sacrificed young children as an offering to the gods and laid them to rest in special infant burial grounds, according to a team of international researchers.

WATERTOWN, New York (WWNY) - It’s Good Friday, a day observed by Christians around the world commemorating the crucifixion and death of Jesus. People gathered in Watertown and in Carthage to ...

In 146 BC, as the Romans conquered the vast Carthaginian Empire in North Africa, thousands of people fled their homeland. Now, science is suggesting some may have taken refuge thousands of miles ...

Having witnessed the public crucifixion of failed Carthaginian generals as an impressionable young boy, Hannibal might not have thought Altinius’s fate all that terrible. Anyhow, any ...