The City Rome Erased From History | Carthage Explained

Ajouté : 2026-05-01

[00:00:00]Before Rome destroyed it, Carthage was one of the most magnificent cities the ancient world had ever seen. Founded 814 BC, older than Rome itself. Half a million people living on a peninsula in North Africa. Two harbors, a rectangular commercial port trading gold, silver, and exotic animals across three continents, and a circular military harbor that could house 220 warships simultaneously, each one in its own covered birth. The city walls were 37 km long, 12 m high, 9 m thick. Inside, stables for 300 war elephants, barracks for 20,000 soldiers, multi-story apartment buildings up to six floors tall, a hilltop citadel, temples, markets, a senate house. Carthage wasn't just a city, it was a civilization.

[00:00:52]Then, Rome came. Three wars, 120 years.

[00:00:56]The third and final war ended with 17 days of street-by-street fighting, house-by-house, floor-by-floor, until there was nothing left. The population killed or enslaved, the buildings razed to the ground, the site cursed so nothing would ever be built there again.

[00:01:13]Rome didn't just defeat Carthage, it annihilated it. And then, we wrote history so you would never know how magnificent it had been.