The struggle to the death between the Carthaginians and the Romans was one of the defining dramas of the ancient world. In an epic series of land and sea battles, both sides came close to victory before the Carthaginians finally succumbed and their capital city, history, and culture were almost utterly erased. Drawing on a wealth of new archaeological research, Richard Miles vividly brings to life this lost empire--from its origins among the Phoenician...

Archaeologist Richard Miles presents a series charting the history of the breakthroughs and watersheds in our long quest to understand our ancient past. He shows how discoveries in the 18th and 19th centuries overturned ideas of when and where civilization began, as empires competed to literally 'own' the past.

Explore the power and the paradox of the 'Greek Thing'-a blossoming in art, philosophy, and science that went hand in hand with political discord, social injustice, and endless war. Richard Miles paints a fascinating picture of the internal and external pressures that fueled this unique political and social experiment, one that pioneered many of the political systems that we still live with today-oligarchy, tyranny, totalitarianism, and democracy....