A new book by historian and archaeologist Eve MacDonald paints a more complete portrait of the once-great African society ...

When we think of Rome in the ancient world, we tend to think of the massive military empire that eventually stretched across three continents. We think of the Senate, Julius Caesar, and Brutus. What ...

Sallust, the Roman historian and protégé of Julius Caesar, once warned of what happens to empires after the enemy is vanquished. Writing in Bellum Catilinae, he observed: “After the destruction of ...

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 ...