The Romans governed North Africa for 600 years. Throughout the region, their genius for building was readily apparent. They constructed about 600 cities, 12,000 miles of roads and hundreds of aqueducts--some as long as 50 miles. Susan Raven recounts the story of the magnificent Roman empire in North Africa, drawing on a wide selection of literary and archaeological evidence in order to conjure up the ghosts of its crumbling remains.
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