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Ancient Carthage (/ ˈ k ɑːr θ ɪ dʒ / KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. ' New City ') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. [3] Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state, and then an empire.
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 civilization of Ancient Carthage and later Roman ...
The aqueduct draws on several sources which ran dry at different times. The first and most important source is located near the town of Zaghouan in the Djebel Zaghouan, a mountain range about 60 km south of Carthage. In Roman times a sacred fountain structure was built over the spring, which became one of the most important in ancient North Africa.
Photos show the various offerings given to a pair of ancient deities. Rare golden gifts — left at a sacrificial site 2,300 years ago — uncovered in Tunisia Skip to main content
Aeneas tells Dido of the fall of Troy. (Guérin 1815)Carthage was founded by Phoenicians coming from the Levant.The city's name in Phoenician language means "New City". [5] There is a tradition in some ancient sources, such as Philistos of Syracuse, for an "early" foundation date of around 1215 BC – that is before the fall of Troy in 1180 BC; however, Timaeus of Taormina, a Greek historian ...
The Carthage Punic Ports were the old ports of the city of Carthage that were in operation during ancient times. Carthage was first and foremost a thalassocracy, [1] that is, a power that was referred to as an Empire of the Seas, whose primary force was based on the scale of its trade. The Carthaginians, however, were not the only ones to ...
The ancient descriptions were seemingly confirmed by the discovering of the so-called Tophet of Salammbô in Carthage in 1921, which contained the urns of cremated children. [30] However, modern historians and archaeologists debate the reality and extent of this practice.
The town was in antiquity the seat of a Christian bishopric [4] which survives today as a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. A Bishop Dialogus of Zama Maior was at the Council of Carthage (411), and a Bishop Marcellus of Zama Minor participated in the Synod of Carthage of AD 255. [5] [6] Barthélemy Adoukonou [7] is the current Bishop.