Carthage Gallery

Scipio Africanus meeting Hannibal at Battle of Zama

SECOND PUNIC WAR : the Roman general and statesman Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus meets the Carthaginian leader Hannibal before defeating him at the Battle of Zama, near Carthage in North Africa, which was the final battle of the Second Punic War

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Queen Dido of Carthage's banquet for the poet Aeneas

Queen Dido of Carthage's banquet for the poet Aeneas. Dido in a tiara is flanked by Aeneas and her sister Anna on a raised platform, while servants bring food and drink to a platter on a tripod. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Andrea Bernieri from Giulio Ferrario's Ancient and Modern Costumes of all the Peoples of the World, Florence, Italy, 1843. Date:

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Demostratio Artis Geometricae Ex Multis Voluminibus Digestum

Demostratio Artis Geometricae Ex Multis Voluminibus Digestum. Schematic map of the Iberian Peninsula. 11th century. Depicts the Iberian Peninsula in a pentagon invested. Manuscript of the Monastery of Ripoll, 106, fol. 82r. Archive of the Crown of Aragon. Barcelona. Spain

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