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Carthage was an ancient city in northern Africa founded by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunisia. Carthage was one of the most important t
Modern reconstruction of Punic Carthage. The Cothon port at the front houses the circular military port of Carthage, where all of Carthage's warships (Biremes) were anchored.
Punic ruins in Byrsa
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Archaeological Site of Carthage
Phoenicia
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The Phoenicians were an ancient Semitic-speaking people who inhabited city-states in Canaan along the Levantine coast of the eastern Mediterranean, primarily in present-day Lebanon. Their maritime civ
Carthage
…Carthage (Arabic: قرطاج, ) was an ancient city in northern Africa founded by the legendary Phoenician queen Dido 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…
Approximate extent of Phoenician settlements and trade routes c. 800 BC.
Two bronze fragments from an Assyrian palace gate depicting the collection of tribute from the Phoenician cities of Tyre and Sidon (859–824 BC). British Museum.
Phoenicians build pontoon bridges for Xerxes I of Persia during the second Persian invasion of Greece in 480 BC (1915 drawing by A. C. Weatherstone).
Achaemenid-era coin of Abdashtart I of Sidon, who is seen at the back of the chariot, behind the Persian King