In the spring of 146 BC, flames consumed the great city of Carthage. Once the richest port in the ancient world, Carthage stood for centuries as Rome’s only equal — a maritime power built on trade, science, and diplomacy. But prosperity made it dangerous. What followed was not conquest, but extermination. Rome besieged the city for three years, starved its people, burned its temples, and enslaved its survivors. Then it buried the truth beneath propaganda that painted Carthage as barbaric and ...
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In the spring of 146 BC, flames consumed the great city of Carthage. Once the richest port in the ancient world, Carthage stood for centuries as Rome’s only equal — a maritime power built on trade, science, and diplomacy. But prosperity made it dangerous. What followed was not conquest, but extermination. Rome besieged the city for three years, starved its people, burned its temples, and enslaved its survivors. Then it buried the truth beneath propaganda that painted Carthage as barbaric and ...
Hidden in the mountains of 11th-century Persia, Hassan-i Sabbah built a fortress that would become legend — Alamut, the Eagle’s Nest. From its shadowed halls, he forged a new kind of weapon: men who killed without hesitation, who died without fear, and whose faith made kings tremble in their beds. They were the Hashashin — the Order of Assassins. To their enemies, they were demons. To their followers, martyrs. To history, the birth of an idea so potent that it outlived empires. This episode o...
History Declassified
In the spring of 146 BC, flames consumed the great city of Carthage. Once the richest port in the ancient world, Carthage stood for centuries as Rome’s only equal — a maritime power built on trade, science, and diplomacy. But prosperity made it dangerous. What followed was not conquest, but extermination. Rome besieged the city for three years, starved its people, burned its temples, and enslaved its survivors. Then it buried the truth beneath propaganda that painted Carthage as barbaric and ...
