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Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Négociants phéniciens faisant le commerce d'objets en bronze à Carthage / Compagnie Liebig.

The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.

Ruins of the grand aqueduct of ancient Carthage. Coloured aquatint, 1803, after L. Mayer.

Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes; Carthaginian soldiers hammer more spikes into the barrel and prepare to close the lid. Etching by S. Rosa.

Daily life in Carthage at the time of Hannibal / Gilbert and Colette Charles-Picard ; translated from the French by A.E. Foster.

Recent excavations at Carthage.

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Carthage (Extinct city)

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Daily life in Carthage at the time of Hannibal / Gilbert and Colette Charles-Picard ; translated from the French by A.E. Foster.

Recent excavations at Carthage.

Marcus Atilius Regulus placed in a barrel lined with iron spikes; Carthaginian soldiers hammer more spikes into the barrel and prepare to close the lid. Etching by S. Rosa.

The wife of Hasdrubal the Boetharch, seeing the defeat of Carthage by the Romans, throws herself and her children into a blazing temple in front of distressed onlookers. Engraving by P. Woeiriot.

Évolution du commerce et de l'industrie : Négociants phéniciens faisant le commerce d'objets en bronze à Carthage / Compagnie Liebig.