The many Punic settlements in north Africa and Sicily help explain admixtures from those parts of the world. But the Greek ...

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate the region, and Phoenician culture thrived farther west until its destruction in 146 BCE.

For Diodorus, the Carthaginians’ persistent disrespect and destruction of sacral spaces ... to fend for themselves as he sailed back to Carthage. Diodorus (14.76) concludes the episode by ...

Middle Eastern Phoenician city-states eventually fell to other groups, but the culture thrived farther west — most notably in Carthage, in what is now Tunisia, until its destruction in 146 bc.