When I was there say 20 years ago, I saw a tourist couple literally pulling out whole blocks our of buildings and stuffing it in their duffle bags. The looting of the stone hasn't stopped in the modern age.

Walking on the beach in front of Carthage, you could find hundreds of bits of mosaics, eroded by the sea. That was is the early ‘70s when I lived in Tunisia for 3 years. A bit further away, it was bullets left over from WWII.

Thank you so much for being there in person! You are fulfilling dreams of those who could never go.

Welcome to my beautiful country Tunisia. As a fellow history buff, am happy to see that you are spreading the glory of Carthage to your audience. If you find yourself in the city of Bizerte(Hippo Zaratus in latin) i'll be happy to help you.

Amazing that the imprint of this harbour remains - makes me think of the one in Ephesus!

Thank you for letting us live vicariously through you! I've never seen these ruins before.

just bought your new book because of how much I love your work, and it's really delivered! it's enjoying to read, I've learned so many little bits of information I had never learnt before.

The Antonin baths site also has a collection of undergroud room-graves, tourists always miss them,also a good portion of the site is closed for political/administrative reasons

Thanks for an interesting tour. Ancient Carthage must have been impressive.

I was hoping you would have a little bit about the cisterns. I was at Carthage a few years back and saw the cisterns but didn't pay them much attention. They were in such good shape for their size and I did not realize they were almost 2000 years old!

Amazing how many layers of history are present there. Rome really did a number on the remains of Carthage but after such costs in manpower and resources I guess they really set out to permanently pacify the region.

Thank you for going to Carthage. Its history is still a mystery (at least from their perspective) and not as wildly appreciated 👏

I know the area. Unfortunately in teh past the tunisian government allowed people to build nearby. Many houses are built on Carthage ruins.

Hi -a very nice video -thank you. A couple of corrections, if I may: 1) the Punic naval port was built between the 2nd and 3rd Punic wars, so would not have - as you suggest - been where the Carthaginian army set off from in the 1st Punic war. 2) It is not certain or proven - as you suggest - that the infant cemetery, so-called the Tophet, was in fact related to sacrifice: this has been in dispute among scholars, especially since 1987; and despite efforts on both sides of the debate, neither position has been scientifically ‘proven.’ It is possible that many, if not all the children, had died of natural causes, including pre and peri as well as post-natal. Feel free to get in touch with me if you would like me to provide references and/or any other information.

I hope to hear more about Carthage!!!

Was there last year. Our guide told us that the reason the Arabs instead build Tunis a couple of km inland was that they had no sea power...

Fascinating! You're to all the places we'd like to explore! Except you know what to look for and the meaning. Thanks!

this is excellent. there is so much that we have turned a blind eye to (Horatio), and hopefully the Punic and other ancient civilizations will finally be more deeply explored.

I have seen renderings of the harbor and it was truly magnificent!

Now looking forward to your exploration of the ruins of Sparta!

I'm there now, and it's good to know it will rain again someday. Not a stone left, indeed. Imagine what could be left underneath the modern villas and gov't builldings in Carthange and even La Goulette. We need to find more Punic inscriptions or texts.

Great work. Thanks.

Fascinating!

Some countries have the means to save and preserve the remains of ancient history - many don't. But an effort must be made - for the wealth of knowledge we can glean from mankind before us. History can and does give us invaluable information - so we might learn from it.

If you know of an archeologist computer software specialist, maybe a computer generated image reconstruction can be made. I enjoy those I see about various European Roman locations.

Thanks for the tour I was there last October and walked all the sites by myself. Now I know more about what I was looking at . I had no clue at the time and have been studying about it since

So interesting

I really enjoyed your videos! Highly recommended you visit Lebanon for some amazing Roman ruins.

Great video as always!

Its odd that generally the third punic war as taught in schools stops at Zama, and ignores the years long, brutal siege of the actual city, I knew the city was destroyed but the preamble to the siege and the siege itself are some of the most interesting thinks about the punic wars.

Are there any remnants left from the Vandal kingdom?

nice tour.

Since the second half of the first century BC and as a result of increasing communities of Roman citizens living in the North African centers, Rome started to create colonies in North Africa. The main reason was to control the area with Roman citizens, who had been legionaries in many cases, and when Italy was hit by the black death and starvation and the Germanian invasion many Romans ran to North Africa, so many modern North Africans and mostly in Tunisia and Northern Algeria have Roman ancestours and they find important Italian origins in their DNA, more than many modern Northern Italians,

"Carthago delenda est". I have a character in a story I'm writing quote this. It must be awe inspiring to witness in person

Damn good im enjoying your channels

"Carthago delenda est, by Jupiter!"

Carthage depended too much on mercenaries. Hannibal was also hampered by not getting the resources he needed.

Question: is there anything left (foundations etc..) of the round building on the island that was supposed to house the military ships ? Second , how about size? I understand size has probably changed quite a bit since in the past 2500 years or so. But still.... having 200 ships in that "lake" there seems "difficult"... How would they maneuver?

I so envy you being able to go and see these sites in person!!! Thank you for sharing this though ,as at least I can remotely enjoy them with you.😊

Great episode definitely like to see more Roman stone outside rome❤

ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔤𝔬 𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔞 𝔢𝔰𝔱.

2:10 have they found any evidence of a brothel near the children's graveyard?

Carthago delenda est.

Not often we see the Romans as the new kids on the block.

0:02 Is that a young walnut tree in the bottom right of the image?

Carthago dalenda est!!! CARTHAGO DALENDA EST!!!!

Yes! Carthage!!

This bro is such a good presenter.

The channel name changed?

I often wonder about Carthage; why no modern-day people can be identified, like Italians who descend from the Romans, and Iranians from the Persians, who call themselves Persians to this day, on occasion. Where are the Carthaginians? They couldn't have all died-off! They're reminiscent of the Canaanites...who just seemed to drop-off the face of the earth.

All the Semitic cultures sacrificed children surprisingly late in history. Some groups still do, even in the US.

To me, this looks like a big pile of rocks. Having been to many (not all) ancient sites in the Mediterranean basin, the best preserved are in Egypt and the near east and perhaps in Provence.

BOO Carthage! How *DARE* they make inroads into Sicily! This can never be forgiven. I still tell my kids "Hannibal ad portās!" when they're being naughty.

There is so little left of the Carthaginian sites to explore, but searching for the surviving bits remaining around the Mediterranean are worth hunting. There is nothing so thrilling as standing where Hannibal might have travelled as he planned then executed his assault on Rome.