Port of Carthage: Then and Now

Sophia Moonstone

Updated Tuesday, July 18, 2023 at 5:53 PM CDT

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ThomasTheW***EngineIV

man thats cool. they should rebuild

evolution4407

Looks surprisingly current. Or even futuristic.

HeresYourSauce

I was taught Rome salted Carthage so that no one would ever live there again. I wonder where that myth came from, seeing as there's such a spectacular city in its place now.

majortool

Jon Stewart on pretzels (in a segment about arbitrary laws like The Official Snack of Iowa): "The pretzel is an abomination! To take perfectly good dough, to twist it, to bake it within an inch of its life, and then to salt it like the mighty city of Carthage?! It is an outrage. I don't like pretzels."

TypicallyMisjudged

NC-1701

jfitz

"And furthermore I consider it necessary that Carthage be unearthed"

PastelMoons

There's a theory that some carthiginians went to Brazil, being the first European discovers of the Americas. There's a good Secrets of the Dead episode about it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_Phoenician_discovery_of_the_Americas https://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets/carthages-lost-warriors-image-gallery/1129/

gr***koolaid

Even though Cato the Elder signed off all his correspondence with “Carthago delenda est” like he was Walter f****** Cronkite, I wholeheartedly agree with you OP. Worry the Phoenicians, we wouldn’t have had Greek alphabet, and who knows where ancient civilization would have been post Bronze Age collapse? Just ONE BATTERING RAM!!! That’s all Hannibal needed. (Cries in the corner)

dghughes

As much as I find ancient Phoenicia / Carthage fascinating they made one of the biggest goofs in all history. Their mortal enemy ancient Rome had no experience on the seas but Phoenicians by then had hundreds of years experience. The Phoenicians literally labelled each part of each ship to make it easy to build them (remember they invented the alphabet too). Romans captured a Phoenician ship saw the markings and then mass produced ships. It was the end for Phoenicia that one mistake!

sandcoloredFN

I see some Phoenician influence as well