Hannibal and the Punic Wars

Hannibal and the Punic Wars

The Punic Wars and the Development of Rome Matthew Raphael Johnson Senior Researcher The Barnes Review   The Punic Wars were a clash of two growing societies and their aspirations for supremacy of Mediterranean. The two polities was the growing Roman republic and the African commercial city of Carthage. The Punic Wars were not just…

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John Tiffany: Mithridates VI of Pontus

John Tiffany: Mithridates VI of Pontus

John Tiffany, longtime associate, editor and researcher for The Barnes Review, provides an analysis of Mithridates VI, sometimes known as “The Great” who was a warrior against the Roman Senatorial Republic. He was the main opponent of Roman expansion in Greece. http://recordings.talkshoe.com/TC-140803/TS-1101198.mp3 Long before the nation was said to exist, this monarch and general was a…

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First Phoenician DNA is European

First Phoenician DNA is European

Traditional historical accounts which claim the Phoenicians were all Semitic has been turned on its head with the news that ancient DNA extracted from a 2,500-year-old Phoenician skeleton has unquestionably shown European racial origins. The study found that the DNA of the famous “’Young Man of Byrsa,” was an extremely rare—and exclusively European marker—and that this…

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