Hannibal of Carthage (modern Tunisia), a great military strategist, led elephants through the Alps to defeat Rome.

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. In the beginning of each episode of the History Channel show Decisive Battles, host Matthew Settle brags of the "new video game technology" the series ...

The Cantabrian Wars (29-16 BC) represented Rome's final push to subjugate the last independent Celtic peoples in western continental Europe. The conflicts were so challenging that Augustus himself ...

A millennia-old helmet that saw ancient Rome’s first great Mediterranean war was recently unearthed in Italy. The find was announced by the Sicilian regional government in a Sept. 5 announcement. In a ...

Imperiums: Greek Wars is a combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Inspired by Aggressors: Ancient Rome, Kube Games bring you a fresh look at a ...

CIVIL WARS: A History in Ideas, by David Armitage. Alfred A. Knopf, 349 pp., $27.95. In the Gettysburg Address, Abraham Lincoln used three of its 272 immortal words to describe the military cataclysm ...

One Ancient Roman historian argued that republics need the fear of common enemies to prevent political factions from tearing ...

Imperiums: Greek Wars is a combination of turn-based 4X and historical grand strategy with a mythological twist. Inspired by Aggressors: Ancient Rome, Kube Games bring you a fresh look at a ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Like the ancient empire it's based on, Rome: Total War wasn't built in a day. The upcoming third game in Creative Assembly's popular strategy series ...