An Ancient North African Civilization Sacrificed Their Young Children to Gods as Part of a Religious Practice In ancient Carthage, (now in Tunisia) the civilization used to follow brutal rituals of ...

Korbous, a coastal town on the Cap Bon peninsula, has historically been one of Tunisia’s hot spots for the therapy, which ...

Europe’s tallest volcano, Mount Etna on the island of Sicily, began erupting on Tuesday in an impressive lava flow emerging ...

A remarkable discovery off the southern coast of Sicily has revealed a 2,500-year-old shipwreck. It was buried under 20 feet ...

Nestled on the heights of Agrigento in Sicily, the Valley of the Temples stands as a majestic testament to the grandeur of ...

For the Pompeii helmet, Olshanetsky argues the palm frond was linked to other cultures including the Phoenicians, Carthaginians and Christians, while the griffin was a pagan symbol, according to ...

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John A. Martino and Michael P. O'Kane's historical novel 'Olympia and the Birth of the Olympic Games' takes readers to the dawn of an "ancient Hellenic civilisation" following the Greek Dark Ages.

They led a largely peaceful co-existence, the Greeks focusing on the eastern and central Mediterranean and the Carthaginians - also known as the Punic people - seeking to expand into the western ...

Read on our page about the history of Ibiza and Formentera and how the Carthaginians first traded in the 'white gold'. Lying two kilometres off the island’s southwest coast near Cala d’Hort, Es Vedrà ...