Who were the Carthaginians?


 * Carthage was an ancient city on the north coast of Africa and is now a suburb in the city of Tunis, Tunisia.
 * From the middle of the third century BC to the middle of the second century BC, Carthage fought a series of three wars with Rome, known as the Punic Wars.
 * When Carthage was eventually completely defeated by Rome, the site was plundered and burned.
 * General Hannibal commanded the Carthaginian forces during the Second Punic War, between 218 BC and 201 BC.

Source: Encyclopedia Britannica

Carthage (/ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ/, from Latin: Carthāgō; Phoenician Qart-ḥadašt "New City") was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, situated on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in what is now Tunis Governorate, Tunisia. The city developed from a Phoenician colony into the center of an empire dominating the Mediterranean during the first millennium BC.

The ancient city was destroyed by the Roman Republic in the Third Punic War in 146 BC then re-developed as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of the Roman Empire in Africa. The Roman city was again destroyed in the Muslim conquest of the Maghreb, in 698. The site remained uninhabited, the regional power shifting to the medina of Tunis in the medieval period, until the early 20th century, when it began to develop into a coastal suburb of Tunis, incorporated as Carthage municipality in 1919.

The archaeological site was first surveyed in 1830, by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe. Excavations were performed in the second half of the 19th century by Charles Ernest Beulé and by Alfred Louis Delattre. The Carthage National Museum was founded in 1875 by cardinal Charles Martial Lavigerie. Excavations performed by French archaeologists in the 1920s attracted an extraordinary amount of attention because of the evidence for Child sacrifice in Cartaginian religion they produced, in Greco-Roman and Biblical tradition associated with the Canaanite god Moloch (Baal Hammon). The open-air Carthage Paleo-Christian Museum has exhibits excavated under the auspices of Unesco during 1975 to 1984.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage

The Carthaginians 6th-2nd Century BC