Was Hannibal Barca of Carthage Black?

[Oceanicpuppy]

I heard that he was a Phoenician Punic whom where Semitic settlers from Lebanon.
Some people believe Phoenicans were Black skinned some don't
I also heard that Punics ancestry dates back to local black Berbers in north african as well.

He looks like a Black African here.

To honest I've heard so many conflicting views like his mother being celtic among others.

 

[observe]

There actually isn't any known portrait of him..so all those coins of him whether black or white we don't know if they're him or not..so we can't base the coins of that....in the 1930s French archeologists dug up some of carthage and found that the skulls and skeletons buried there during the time of the Punic wars were black....I don't know what race the Phoenicians were..I don't think anyone knows

The reason why I think he was black and his army was is because they tamed African elephants to march across the alps in Italy..they would have to have knowledge of elephants

 

[TooLazyToMakeUp1]

More than likely, but

I know he damn sure ain't look like the dirty ass crossbred italian he was in Civ4

 

[KravenMorehead™]

The coin says it all...

 

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[Ozymandeas]

Blackish most likely. Similar complexion to Rick Fox, Boris Kodjoe, The Rock, etc.

Too bad we can’t know for sure with today’s technology but it would be cool if we could travel back to certain eras. The world would lose their mind knowing a lot of people were of a darker complexion.

 

[CoryMack]

That coin and some others like it were found in the vicinity of lake trasimene in central Italy where Hannibal had just ambushed and destroyed a third Roman army. It was the first time in history an entire army had been used to lay an ambush. It was the custom at that time for the victorious commander to have coins minted to commemorate a victory.

The significance of that coin is that that elephant was the last surviving elephant he had out of all the elephants he left Spain with. It was his favorite, named Surus. He’d lost the rest crossing the alps and in the battles he’d had up to that point.

 

[UncleTomFord15]

Hannibal was black. The two major points are that Carthage was in Africa (north Africa was black until about 1300 years ago). And secondly that's clearly a black person on that coin. Why would they put some random black person on a coin (said person also appears to be a child)? It's obviously a young Hannibal that they put on the coin in honor of him.

 

[CoryMack]

Hannibal was black. The two major points are that Carthage was in Africa (north Africa was black until about 1300 years ago). And secondly that's clearly a black person on that coin. Why would they put some random black person on a coin (said person also appears to be a child)? It's obviously a young Hannibal that they put on the coin in honor of him.

He was young. He took command of the army at 31, and he wouldn’t have been more than about 33/34 at the time that coin was minted.

 

[mson]

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