The Rise of Hannibal
Dan Snow's History Hit
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The History of the Carthaginians
Mystery still abounds surrounding hannibal and his family's background. But this has not stopped people putting wards various theories about how the family, the barkets, ended up at carthage. Doctor eve macdonald is a lecturer in ancient history at cardiff university alongside lewis. She is also one of hannibal's 20 first century biographers. There are some really interesting theories about hannibal’s family, but we don't necessarily have any proof. We know that he is he from a very, very old family that came with the original colonists from tyre. Or we think that perhaps the surname of the barkeds can tell us a little bit about
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