A majestic, gloomy and powerful city, a formidable ruler of the seas, the center of the bloody cult of Moloch - this is Carthage in the popular opinion of modern people, in novels and films. How valid is this image? The author of this book, using extensive historical and archaeological material, recreates a different, but no less impressive picture of a truly great culture, undeservedly forgotten, virtually destroyed by Rome. The lost literature of Carthage appears before the reader as an unsolved mystery of centuries, possibly containing the keys to the mysteries of Atlantis. And the religion of Moloch turns out to be not so sinister...