Desert Kings: A History of the Gaetuli and the Soul of Ancient North Africa

For centuries, the Gaetuli were reduced to a footnote in Roman history — the primitive nomads at the edge of the empire's maps, briefly troublesome, quickly forgotten. The Desert Kings is their recovery.Drawing on archaeology, epigraphy, historical linguistics, and a careful reading of the classical sources against their own grain, Tormund Newell restores the Gaetuli to their rightful place at the...