After winning the third & final Punic war against the Carthaginians, Rome decided to wipe all traces of Carthage from the map & left "no stone on another standing". The only reason that these few remains still exist is that the Romans filled in the sides of hill to create a larger level area on which to build their new "Roman" Carthage. Recent excavations unearthed these few remains.
Behind the trees in this photo is the Cathedral of St Louis - more on him at the bottom of this page.
Me standing among Carthaginian stelae (grave stones). The Roman PR machine claimed that the Carthaginians were a barbarous race, sacrificing their children in gruesome rituals.
In the centre of this photo are the linked Carthaginian harbours for maintaining & berthing their fleet. Being a maritime nation they initially had superior naval technology than the Romans.
So called after the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius in the 2nd century AD, they were one of the largest baths complexes in the world. All that exists now are the basement levels of the buildings.
Needless to say the baths cover a vast area. However, it really resembles a building site with masonry fragments jumbled together any-old-how as these photos show.
Louis IX of France may have been a Saint - but he was not very successful in the Crusades, dying in Tunis in 1270. Looks a bit wimpish in this statue.
