World Wonders: Carthage

Perhaps the most famous Phoenician trading colony and eventually the capital of an expansive Mediterranean empire, the ancient city of Carthage was an important center for maritime trade, with two large artificial harbors constructed to house its navy and merchant ships. Located on the northwestern coast of modern Tunisia in North Africa, Carthage was for a time among the most powerful and prosperous cities of the Mediterranean, outshining even the Phoenician city-states of Tyre and Sidon, whose inhabitants first established the settlement as a small trading outpost. Founded in the late ninth century BCE, Phoenician Carthage thrived until its eventual […]