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Sandra Bingham is a Senior Lecturer in Classics at the University of Edinburgh, UK. She has been involved in excavations at Carthage and now works in Greece. She has written The Praetorian Guard (2012); other interests include espionage in antiquity and Roman imperial women. Eve MacDonald is Senior Lecturer in Ancient History at Cardiff University, UK. As an archaeologist she has excavated at and taught extensively on Carthage. She is the author of Hannibal: A Hellenistic Life (2015) and currently works on excavations on the Sasanian Persian frontiers.
Carthage is an innovative and fascinating cultural history. Besides outlining the Punic, Roman and Christian city and its monuments, this book includes studies on the history of mentalities and archaeological fieldwork at Carthage from the 17th century to recent times. -- Jesper Carlsen, Professor in Ancient History, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark This book is an excellent introduction to the history of archaeology at the site of Carthage. It will be extremely useful for students and people who are interested in Carthage and Roman North Africa, and students working on the history of the discipline of archaeology. -- Gareth Sears, Associate Professor in Roman History, University of Birmingham, UK As Bingham and MacDonald write, ""there is not one Carthage but hundreds of them"" (p. 5). Its history is daunting. Well situated on East-West Mediterranean trade routes, Carthage was colonized by Tyre in the 9th century BCE (according to legend), destroyed by Rome in the Third Punic War (146 BCE), became an agriculturally rich provincial Roman capital with growing Christian leanings, and was later the capital of the Vandal kingdom of North Africa. Conquered in the 6th century CE by the Eastern Roman Emperor Belisarius, Carthage was later claimed by Arab-Muslim conquest in 696 CE. It was ruled by Abbasid governors (9th century CE), the Fatimids (10th–12th centuries CE), the Almohads (12th–13th centuries CE), the Hafsids (13th–16th centuries CE), and the Ottomans and later the French until Tunisian independence in 1956. Chapter 2 (""From Carthage to Tunis"") expands on the 8th to the 17th centuries. The Europeans arrived in 1806. French and English excavators were ""Rivals in the Field,"" discussed in chapter 4. Radical transitions in the early 20th century led to research, conservation, and public outreach. The text is supplemented with 33 small black-and-white illustrations, 2 maps, and 3 plans, although these are barely adequate. Recommended. Graduate students and faculty. -- C. C. Mattusch, emerita, George Mason University * Choice *
