'This is not only history reclaimed this is history at its best!' Professor Lloyd
Llewellyn-Jones author of Persians: the Age of the Great Kings 'A bravura re-telling' Daily
Mail 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.
