Carthage - A new history of an ancient empire

The empire behind the legend Carthage was a power that dominated the western Mediterranean for almost six centuries before its fall to Rome. The history of the realm and its Carthaginians was subsumed by their conquerors and, along the way, the story of the real Carthage was lost. An ancient North African kingdom, Carthage was the home of Hannibal and of Dido, of war elephants and enormous power and wealth, of great beauty and total destruction. In this landmark new history, Eve MacDonald tells the essential story of the lost culture of Carthage and of its forgotten people, using brand new archaeological analysis to uncover the history behind the legend. A journey that takes us the Phoenician Levant of the early Iron Age to the Atlantic and all along the coast of Africa, Carthage puts the city and the story of North Africa once again at the centre of Mediterranean history. Reclaimed from the Romans, this is the Carthaginian version of the tale, revealing to us that, without Carthage, there would be no Rome.

Report

Deploying the latest archaeological discoveries with deep and revealing research, Eve MacDonald's Carthage shines welcome new light on the ancient origins and trajectory of the mysterious North African empire that challenged Rome's power in the Mediterranean Professor Adrienne Mayor

Product details

• Authors: Eve MacDonald, MacDonald Eve
• Publisher: Ebury Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 07.08.2025
• EAN: 9781529911688
• ISBN: 978-1-5299-1168-8
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 154 mm x 233 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Ancient / General, HISTORY / Africa / North, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, General & world history, Ancient History, Tunisia, Archaeology by period / region, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, BCE to c 500 CE, c 1 to c 500 CE