Modern Carthage is a residential suburb (population 26,000) of Tunis, the capital of Tunisia. But in its heyday, the seaside town was the seat of the Carthaginians, whose North African empire gave ...
A vision of ancient Carthage, attributed to the painter William Linton, c. 1830. The Cleveland Museum of Art Around 310 B.C.E., Carthage was under siege by Agathocles of Syracuse and his army.