The Mediterranean Powerhouse of the First Millennium BCE 🏟️（1）

🌊🌅Carthage: 🌟Carthage, an ancient city located in present - day Tunisia 🌴, was once one of the wealthiest cities and a crucial trade hub in the ancient Mediterranean world. 🌊🌅Serving as the capital of the Punic Empire, it dominated a large part of the south - western Mediterranean region during the first millennium BCE 🌟. 🌟 It wasn't just the capital of the ancient Carthaginian civilization; it also became the center of Roman Carthage later on. The history of Carthage can be traced back to the time when it was a Phoenician colony 🐚. 🐚 It experienced a period of great prosperity as ancient Carthage. Until 146 BCE, during the Third Punic War, the Roman Republic laid waste to Carthage 💥. 🌊🌅However, a century later, it was rebuilt as Roman Carthage and emerged as the main city of the Roman Empire's Africa Province 🏛️. 🐚Between 1975 and 1984, with the support of UNESCO, the ruins of Carthage were excavated and subsequently listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site 💫. #Ruins of Carthage #Carthage #Roman Empire #Punic Wars