Carthage Must Be DestroyedTunisia / Mediterranean · 264–146 BCE“Before Rome ruled the sea, an African city taught it what the sea was for.”Carthage stood on the Tunisian shore for six centuries: Phoenician by founding, African by everything after, mistress of harbours from Iberia to Sicily. Rome was a land power with borrowed ships.The lesson the elders kept: Empires are most honest about a rival in the manner of its erasure. The salt is legend, the fear was real, and the victor wrote both versions.