"My only weakness is that I'm TOO stubborn. Like, I will not stop even if 20% of my male population is killed in battle"

"My only weakness is that I'm TOO stubborn. Like, I will not stop even if 20% of my male population is killed in battle"

https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Horne-GreatMenFamousWomen/pages/014-hannibal-chrossing-the-rhone/

Elephants on rafts! Shirtless men using weird oars to propel rafts over the Rhône. Men wearing regular shoes that i’m sure will get ruined! 🙂

Photolithography i think (no screen dots), easy to scan and clean up in #GIMP at least (some heal tool to remove dots possibly from dirt on the printing plate).

#vintageArt #hannibal #punicWars #romanEmpire #elephants #rhön #GIMP3 #Gimp_3 #fobo

The Mercenary War, or Truceless War, was a brutal conflict fought between Carthage and its mutinous soldiers from 241 to 237 BCE, during a lull in the Punic Wars. #History #Rome #PunicWars #Polybius #MercenaryWar #HamilcarBarca #Carthage #TrucelessWar #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/1-25131-en/

Intact Roman helmet from the First Punic War recovered from the sea

Archaeologists have recovered an extremely well-preserved Roman bronze helmet from the seabed off Sicily’s Egadi Islands, where the decisive Battle of the Aegates took place in 241 BCE...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/09/roman-helmet-from-the-first-punic-war/

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17-MAY-2024
A devastating fire 2,200 years ago preserved a moment of life and war in Iron Age Spain — right down to a single gold earring
A violent blaze, possibly linked to the Carthaginian army crossing the Pyrenees to fight the Romans, flared up so quickly people couldn’t save their animals or their valuables

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1044380 #science #archaeology #RomanHistory #PunicWars

The hand of #RichardBerg still rules from The Great Beyond!
"Thunderbolt" by #GMTGames on P500. A deluxe treatment of the three volumes in the #AncientWorld series.
#PunicWars #RepublicOfRome #Carthage #Pyrrhus #HexAndCounter #Wargaming
https://www.gmtgames.com/p-1055-thunderbolt-deluxe-edition.aspx

Backup Nr.9 of "Map depicting the original colony & city of #carthage as well as the #CarthaginianEmpire at 3 more points in time, and also a suggested far range of frontiers #trade between it & other areas from #NorthAfrica to #britain "

As always further information is embedded on the image itself.

#maps #map #HistoricalMaps #history #antiquity #classicalantiquity #PunicWars #punic #phoenicians #europe #africa #semitic #histodons #histodon

“No Roman or Carthaginian could have dreamed in 264 that their states were about to embark on a twenty-four-year struggle which would involve huge casualties, still less that it would be the first of three wars between the two peoples” (65). It is against this backdrop that the historian Adrian Goldsworthy sets his thoughtful, well-documented analysis of the Punic Wars, the multigenerational co... #History #Rome #PunicWars #Carthage #HistoryFacts https://www.worldhistory.org/review/379/the-fall-of-carthage-the-punic-wars-265-146-bc/

Map depicting the original colony & city of #carthage as well as the #CarthaginianEmpire at 3 more points in time, and also a suggested far range of frontiers #trade between it & other areas from #NorthAfrica to #britain .

As always further information is embedded on the image itself.

#maps #map #HistoricalMaps #history #antiquity #classicalantiquity #PunicWars #punic #phoenicians #europe #africa #semitic #histodons #histodon

A sneak peek at what I'm working on this week.
#GameTranslation
#PunicWars
#BonsaiGames
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