North Africa, Carthage, Roman Ruins,1899

North Africa, Carthage, Roman Ruins,1899

Carthage was the center or capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, on the eastern side of the Lake of Tunis in Tunisia. The ancient city was destroyed by the Roman Republic in the Third Punic War in 146 BC and then re-developed as Roman Carthage, which became the major city of the Roman Empire in the province of Africa. The city was sacked and 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. The archeological 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 Lavigerie. Detroit Publishing Company, 1899.

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