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Carthage and the Phoenician Empire, how a merchant city rose to rival Rome and then vanished

Carthage began as a Phoenician trading outpost and grew into a Mediterranean empire that challenged Rome itself. This chapter follows Phoenician expansion, navigation, and colonization, before tracing ...
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Long before the ancient Roman empire, a rival superpower looked set for supremacy

Before the Punic Wars, as Rome and Carthage edged towards conflict in the third century BC, the balance of power in the ...
Publishers Weekly

Carthage: A New History of an Ancient Empire

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 ...
Greek Reporter

The Forgotten Ancient Greek Invasion of Africa

Ancient Greek Tyrant Agathocles of Syracuse led a daring invasion of Africa, shaping Sicily’s history and influencing ...