The Ruins of Carthage, A Phoenician Trading Center, Then, Rome's Rival, Tunis, Modern-Day Tunisia

Carthage is an extensive archaeological site in Tunisia. It was founded by the Phoenicians and was a metropolis of Punic civilization in Africa3. The site is located on a hill overlooking the Gulf of Tunis and the surrounding plain3. Some of the best-preserved remains from the time can be found at the Carthage archaeological site, including the Punic Ports, the Punic tophet, the acropolis of Byrsa, and the basilica.
Carthage[a] was an ancient city in Northern Africa, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important trading hubs of the Ancient Mediterranean and one of the most affluent cities of the classical world. It became the capital city of the civilisation of Ancient Carthage and later Roman Carthage.
The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the capital of a Punic empire which dominated large parts of the Southwest Mediterranean during the first millennium BC.[1] The legendary Queen Elissa, Alyssa or Dido, originally from Tyre, is regarded as the founder of the city,[2] though her historicity has been questioned. In the myth, Dido asked for land from a local tribe, which told her that she could get as much land as an oxhide could cover. She cut the oxhide into strips and laid out the perimeters of the new city.[3] As Carthage prospered at home, the polity sent colonists abroad as well as magistrates to rule the colonies.[4]
The ancient city was destroyed in the nearly three year siege of Carthage by the Roman Republic during the Third Punic War in 146 BC. It was re-developed a century later as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of the Roman Empire in the province of Africa. The question of Carthaginian decline and demise has remained a subject of literary, political, artistic, and philosophical debates in both ancient and modern histories.[4][5]

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