Carthaginian experience in the field of agriculture was described in the writings
of Mago, who probably lived at the end of the fourth century BC. Our knowledge of these texts comes from quotations in the works of Latin authors, which tell us what was grown in the Carthaginian territories: in the first place the vine and the olive, bu
t other crops included the pomegranate, known in Latin as the malum punicum (Punic apple) and imported from Asia, the almond, and the fig.\par