This richly illustrated study of the archaeology and history of Carthage accompanies an exhibition held in Baden-Wuerttemberg in 2004. Twenty-five specialist essays are included, supported by colour photographs of sites and monuments as well as artworks, jewellery, ceramics, stelae, terracottas, figurines, coins, lamps and other objects from the exhibition. Contributors examine the city and organisation of Carthage, its taste for war and exploitation of the sea, before considering the archaeological and material evidence for contacts between Carthage and cultures elsewhere in the Mediterranean, such as the Etruscans, Phoenicians and, ultimately, the Romans. Sections also discuss Punic colonisation in Sardinia, Sicily and Spain, with essays on urban life, religion and holy places, sacrifice, burials, coinage, language, economy, arts and crafts. German text.