From 650 B.C. to 146 B.C., Carthage was the most powerful trading and commercial city in the Mediterranean. Its sophisticated 200-dock harbor and wealthy population supported a sprawling metropolis of ...
Modern Carthage is a residential suburb (population 26,000) of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. But in its heyday, the seaside town was the seat of the Carthaginians, whose North African empire gave ...