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.
@dftp3 ай бұрын
Still happens all the time. Recently a Belgian couple stole unassuming stone artifacts with old engravings from a beach in Turkey because "they looked nice" and they wanted to decorate their fish tank with it.. Thankfully the government was able to retrieve the artifacts and is gonna try to sue them for theft .
@canchero7242 ай бұрын
Why would it? Humans haven't changed at all and will keep doing human things
@TylerD2882 ай бұрын
It's okay because they were Roman.
@hrh49612 ай бұрын
I, too, was there about 20 years ago. And what I remember is a group of about six people with little brushes carefully exposing a mosaic. I stayed and watched them for quite a while. Oh, the patience!
@kaloarepo2882 ай бұрын
How could you possibly fit whole stone blocks in duffle bags and then carry them around ? It would be impossible!
@alaingadbois22763 ай бұрын
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.
@cracklingsoda19 күн бұрын
How are you doing now Sir?
@avigilR3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for being there in person! You are fulfilling dreams of those who could never go.
@karimabidi83122 ай бұрын
Tunisia isn't expensive though, I was there nearly every year when I was younger and I plan to visit again in august after 3 years of not visiting
@MKfanmomo2 ай бұрын
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.
@PaulBateman-lb7wt29 күн бұрын
I'm here now id love to see more
@Peter-MH3 ай бұрын
Amazing that the imprint of this harbour remains - makes me think of the one in Ephesus!
@inthenebula923 ай бұрын
Thank you for letting us live vicariously through you! I've never seen these ruins before.
@karimabidi83122 ай бұрын
Why don't you visit them then? Honest interest
@thepharaohnerd72353 ай бұрын
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.
@67icebowl25 күн бұрын
Title & author?
@karimjerbi70843 ай бұрын
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
@larsrons79373 ай бұрын
Thanks for an interesting tour. Ancient Carthage must have been impressive.
@bobfrog48363 ай бұрын
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!
@alaingadbois22763 ай бұрын
There’s so much around Carthage to make more than one video.
@scenicroutestothepast3 ай бұрын
Stay tuned for my video on the Zaghouan Aqueduct
@drscopeify3 ай бұрын
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.
@arnian65443 ай бұрын
Thank you for going to Carthage. Its history is still a mystery (at least from their perspective) and not as wildly appreciated 👏
@munbruk3 ай бұрын
I know the area. Unfortunately in teh past the tunisian government allowed people to build nearby. Many houses are built on Carthage ruins.
@nunyabiznes332 ай бұрын
They didn't cared about it.
@munbruk2 ай бұрын
@@nunyabiznes33 Yes
@Redeka93 ай бұрын
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.
@scenicroutestothepast3 ай бұрын
Thank you for these corrections. Much of the information in my video came from the old Blue Guide to Tunisia, which is - I think - even more outdated than its publication date would suggest.
@lucius_cursor2 ай бұрын
I actually came here to say the same thing. Nice video for sure though!
@johnmrke27862 ай бұрын
@@scenicroutestothepast "Ancient Carthaginians really did sacrifice their children" article on Oxford University press mentions a scholarly article which backs up the child sacrifice claims with fairly compelling evidence.
@johnmrke27862 ай бұрын
Prayer inscriptions at tophets along with sacrificed animals contradict the claim that this is a cemetery rather than a place of offering.
@lucius_cursor2 ай бұрын
@@johnmrke2786and Dexter Hoyos presents compelling claims that it wasn’t, hence the fact that it is disputed. And sacrifice can be made after the child has died of natural causes, as was extremely common until just a couple of centuries ago. We do not know either way, and there is effectively no first hand literary evidence prior to Carthage’s destruction (to be fair most of anything Carthaginian hasn’t survived). Either way the point is that it is in fact disputed and not a known fact. EDIT: poor child mortality rates are what I was referring to as extremely common.
@scoon21173 ай бұрын
I hope to hear more about Carthage!!!
@karlnapp27403 ай бұрын
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...
@EllieMaes-Grandad3 ай бұрын
Yet the Romans fought pirates from Arabia . . .
@user-kt8hf9tx6h2 ай бұрын
Sounds plausible. It took a bit of time for Arabs to gain considerable naval strength, even after their vast initial conquests.
@scrollop3 ай бұрын
Fascinating! You're to all the places we'd like to explore! Except you know what to look for and the meaning. Thanks!
@kidmohair81513 ай бұрын
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.
@Mr.56Goldtop3 ай бұрын
I have seen renderings of the harbor and it was truly magnificent!
@t.vanoosterhout2333 ай бұрын
Now looking forward to your exploration of the ruins of Sparta!
@phoule7623 күн бұрын
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.
@johnsongibbs65673 ай бұрын
Great work. Thanks.
@Charliemmag3 ай бұрын
Fascinating!
@frugalvanner74882 ай бұрын
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.
@pggemmiti93852 ай бұрын
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.
@jackmcnair37222 ай бұрын
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
@RevisitingHistoryChannel2 ай бұрын
So interesting
@khodotany3 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed your videos! Highly recommended you visit Lebanon for some amazing Roman ruins.
@CarthagoMike3 ай бұрын
Great video as always!
@jeffreywilliams34213 ай бұрын
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.
@marcobelli68562 ай бұрын
Zama is the second Punic war. The third was basically one sided destruction of Carthage. After the second they didn’t destroy the city completely
@mikehenryse3 ай бұрын
Are there any remnants left from the Vandal kingdom?
@TylerD2882 ай бұрын
Good question.
@terryhughes73493 ай бұрын
nice tour.
@woodpecker-ue2rq2 ай бұрын
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,
@lukesmith18183 ай бұрын
"Carthago delenda est". I have a character in a story I'm writing quote this. It must be awe inspiring to witness in person
@vikingodin19862 ай бұрын
Damn good im enjoying your channels
@gaius_enceladus3 ай бұрын
"Carthago delenda est, by Jupiter!"
@elcoreano112 ай бұрын
Carthage depended too much on mercenaries. Hannibal was also hampered by not getting the resources he needed.
@thomasxxxxxx234525 күн бұрын
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?
@michaeldriskell20382 ай бұрын
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.😊
@nycgweed2 ай бұрын
Great episode definitely like to see more Roman stone outside rome❤
@lebaguette539310 күн бұрын
ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔤𝔬 𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔞 𝔢𝔰𝔱.
@budwyzer776 күн бұрын
2:10 have they found any evidence of a brothel near the children's graveyard?
@armorer942 ай бұрын
Carthago delenda est.
@gaemlinsidoharthi3 ай бұрын
Not often we see the Romans as the new kids on the block.
@Psychol-Snooper3 ай бұрын
0:02 Is that a young walnut tree in the bottom right of the image?
@JAdams-jx5ek3 ай бұрын
Carthago dalenda est!!! CARTHAGO DALENDA EST!!!!
@dftp3 ай бұрын
Are you ok?
@JAdams-jx5ek3 ай бұрын
@@dftp (takes fresh figs from toga) "These figs came from Carthage, a mere 5 days ago!" (hands fresh figs to nearby senators) "CARTHAGO DALENDA EST!!!!"
@PauloPereira-jj4jv2 ай бұрын
DELENDA...!
@PauloPereira-jj4jv2 ай бұрын
@@JAdams-jx5ek... DELENDA.
@JAdams-jx5ek2 ай бұрын
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv Google translate from Latin.
@solokalnesaltam30153 ай бұрын
Yes! Carthage!!
@martinfernandez8822 ай бұрын
This bro is such a good presenter.
@nunyabiznes332 ай бұрын
The channel name changed?
@BORN-to-Run2 ай бұрын
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.
@codyzwick27532 ай бұрын
Lebanon and Tunis
@BORN-to-Run2 ай бұрын
@@codyzwick2753 No. Modern-day Tunisians descend from the Arab invaders from 1500 years ago who brought in Islam. And Lebanon, they are a watered-down mix of ancient Syrians.
@lookoutforchris3 ай бұрын
All the Semitic cultures sacrificed children surprisingly late in history. Some groups still do, even in the US.
@pinchevulpes3 ай бұрын
Really which groups 🙄
@BC-kc6em3 ай бұрын
I think central and southern Semitic cultures didn't do this practice as far as I know.
@EllieMaes-Grandad3 ай бұрын
@@BC-kc6em Judaism didn't, since the days of Abraham.
@EllieMaes-Grandad3 ай бұрын
Meanwhile, across the world, hundreds of thousands of infants in the womb are being deliberately killed each year . . .
@BC-kc6em3 ай бұрын
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Abraham is not a jew
@paulkoza86523 ай бұрын
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.
@TylerD2882 ай бұрын
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.
@blue-vu1ek2 ай бұрын
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.