Ancient North Africa: The Untold History of the Berbers and Phoenician Sea Kings (1200 – 500 BC)

What was the greatest Mediterranean power before Rome and even Greece? Long before Caesar, a fearless queen, daring explorers, and fierce desert tribes carved out an empire on Africa’s northern shores.

From the Bronze Age Collapse to the legendary Queen Dido and the founding of Carthage, this documentary takes you deep into the Maghreb’s Berber heartlands abd the Phoenician sea routes. And the beginnings of the power struggles that would later shape the Classical world.

Sail with Phoenician mariners from Tyre, Sidon, and Byblos as they hunt for silver, tin, and trade with Berber kingdoms. Watch the rise of Utica and Carthage, as Punic cities dominate trade from the Atlantic to Sicily. Meet the Libyans and the Berber peoples who thrived in the mountains, plains, and deserts beyond Punic walls.

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0:00 Indigenous Berber Cultures and Phoenician Exploration
9:04 Early Carthage and Berber Proto-Kingdoms

This video is a part of our series on Northern Africa. You can find each individual one here: • History of Northern Africa

Welcome to our Subregion Documentaries! These standalone full documentaries are meant to summarize broad topics in history and balances political history and events, with social/daily life, and culture. If you've watched our History of the World and Time Period documentary series, these videos are a perfect next step!

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