This is not only history reclaimed this is history at its best Professor Lloyd LlewellynJones author of Persians the Age of the Great KingsA bravura retelling Daily MailCarthage 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.