Carthage was the capital city of the ancient Carthaginian civilization, and was one of the most important trading hubs of the ...

To Ringbauer’s surprise, people from Mediterranean outposts of Phoenician culture—also known as Punic people—shared no ...

It would be another three centuries before Rome absorbed the Greek city-states into its own empire in 146 BC. The Persian Empire: Asia & Egypt: Originally founded by Cyrus the Great in 559 BC ...

However, many were not finished until after his death in 429 BC. Further embellishments were added by the Romans when they conquered Greece in 146 BC.

Middle Eastern Phoenician city-states eventually fell to other groups, but the culture thrived farther west — most notably in Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, until its destruction in 146 bc.