Located in modern-day Tunis in Tunisia and founded by the seafaring Phoenicians, the ancient city of Carthage was a major center of trade and influence in the western Mediterranean. Archaeological evidence suggests the site was occupied as early as 760 B.C. The city, and its peoples, fought ...
In the 9th century bce colonists from Tyre founded the North African city of Carthage, which later became Rome’s principal rival in the West. The town is frequently mentioned in the Bible (Old and New Testaments) as having had close ties with Israel. Hiram, king of Tyre (reigned 969–...
.. a city of great wealth and ruthless in the pursuit of war. Its name was Carthage, and Juno is said to have loved it more than any other place ... But she had heard that there was rising from the blood of Troy a race of men who in days to come would overthrow this Tyrian ...
The causes of the Trojan War are unclear; the Achaeans devastated a rich city. This Greek campaign is celebrated in the epics the Iliad and the Odyssey. A rapid decline of the Helladic culture set in at the end of the 13th century, marked by the abandonment of the palace at Pylos ...
Elisa (Dido) – Founder of the city of Carthage, which would later on be the center of a great Empire. Aníbal Barca – Carthaginian, military strategist who successfully faced the Roman army. Cadmus- Prince of Tyro who brought the alphabet to the Greeks. ...
The main site, the Sanctuary of Zeus, where the wonderful museum is located, includes the remains of houses, baths, and a hero shrine or heroon dedicated to the child, Opheltes. It also includes the ruins of the xenon, a sort of ancient hotel for visitors or participants in the Games,...
Tunis itself was located near the site of the ancient city-state of Carthage. More easily controlled from within than any other Maghrib country, Tunisia was also more open to the influence of people and ideas from abroad. Roman Africa, for example, was the most intensively Christianized portion...
proximity to theMediterranean Sea, which was the area where both culture and goods were traded throughout Africa, Europe, and Asia. Three of these cities,Thebes,Memphis, andAlexandria, were located in Egypt, The third city,Carthage, was located farther west, in the modern-day country of ...
of the current water supply of the city of Bangalore, which has a population of 6 million. The longest Roman aqueduct system was that of Constantinople (Mango 1995). "The known system is at least two and half times the length of the longest recorded Roman aqueducts at Carthage and Cologne...
Rome is a city and the capital of both Italy and the region of Lazio, and the province of Rome, located on the Tiber River, in the central part of the country, near the Tyrrhenian Sea. The Urban Landscape of the First Roman Period ...