Long before Rome dominated the ancient world, Phoenician merchants and colonists built a vast maritime network stretching ...
CARTHAGE HAD EXISTED for over half a millennium when the Romans destroyed it in 146 BCE. Located in a natural harbor on the coast of modern day Tunisia, it was for centuries the great maritime power ...
New York: W. W. Norton, 2025. Pp. vi, 363+. Illus, maps, diagr., notes, biblio., index. $39.99. ISBN: 1324123273 A Fresh Look at the Ancient Punic Metropolis Most of ...
Histories of Carthage often read like a murder victim’s obituary penned by the perpetrators of the crime. Although they were responsible for one of the great Mediterranean civilisations of antiquity, ...
This illuminating debut chronicle from historian MacDonald aims to tell the story of Carthage free from the “othering” propaganda spread by its rivals and eventual annihilators, the Romans. The author ...