This has to be my favorite episode of "Fall of Civilizations" thus far. The way Paul Cooper tells this story, the sheer amount of detail in an already very sparse part of history is just astounding. I'm really impressed and highly recommend this to people interested in ancient history.
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A coin once used to pay a bus fare in Leeds was later identified as a 1st-c. BCE Carthaginian coin minted in Cádiz. The find highlights the far-reaching Phoenician world, part of the same cultural sphere encountered by ancient Israel in the biblical period.
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FLOOR MOSAIC WITH ANTELOPES, C4-C5 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This is another piece of British imperial spolia, dug up by Nathan Davis in 1858 and received by the British Museum the following year. It comes from a late antique domus in Roman Carthage and was probably a threshold mosaic between two rooms. Against a white background, two horned animals drink from a cantharos fountain whose waters shoot up and divide into two cascades which overflow the cantharos and fall into a square basin below. Usually the animals in similar scenes are deer, and they represent the spirit's thirst for God. In this case they're Bohor Reedbuck antelopes, which might have been found in North Africa when this mosaic was made, though now they do not appear north of the Sahara. Plants with red flowers dot the ground, perhaps poppies. Two fancy fowl, gallinules with their characteristic arched heads, fill the space over the antelopes' backs.
#MosaicMonday at the #BritishMuseum presents us with a floor #mosaic from C4-C5 CE #Carthage, where two antelopes drink from a #fountain, a #Christian metaphor for the soul's thirst for God, while a pair of #gallinules look on. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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First physical evidence of Hannibal’s ‘war machine’ elephants? buff.ly/0avdhq6 #archaeology #ancientRome #ancienthistory #carthage
FLOOR MOSAIC WITH TRITON AND NEREID, C. 150 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM Between 1857 and 1860 a novice archæologist, Nathan Davis, undertook excavations in the ruins of ancient Carthage on behalf of the British Foreign Office, receiving £1000 per annum for his discoveries, which the local Bey permitted to be exported. This was part of an imperialist competition with the equally marauding French for collecting antiquities in a strange race which would make a smashing movie. Here we see a floor mosaic from a Roman domus, perhaps itself a border for a larger mosaic, showing a triton reaching back toward a Nereid riding on his serpentine back. She seems to be having second thoughts. A shawl billows over her head, the "velificatio" that indicates her divine nature. Above their heads is a yellow border between two black lines, and then a wide frame with a guilloche between two dentillated strips. The same frame can be seen below, with a complex braid instead of the guilloche.
This #MosaicMonday we're at the #BritishMuseum to see a #mosaic from #Roman #Carthage, c. 150 CE, where the usual flirtation between a #triton and a #Nereid doesn't seem to be going well, but the complex #frame takes equal attention: #guilloches, #braids, #dentils. Fancy. #AncientBluesky 🏺
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In Carthage: Bellum Punicum, the rule is simple: your army, your rules.
Using a detailed and innovative unit designer, recruit, assign equipment, and create the ultimate ancient army to take over the Mediterranean! Check our newest short here: youtube.com/shorts/VVrjf...
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Historians can doubt Polybius. Historians can doubt Livy. They can't doubt physical evidence. #elephants #hannibal #carthage #rome #spain #ancient #history #classics
The Carthage Heritage Trail is a unique asset to this neighborhood, and an amazing opportunity to explore some of Cincinnati's history. #Jeffreyswalksthe52 #Carthage #Cincinnati
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Cincinnati is full of hidden gems like this one right in Carthage. The Seymour Nature Preserve is a beautiful park along the Mill Creek and just minutes away from the Carthage Business District. #Jeffreyswalksthe52 #Carthage #Cincinnati
In Carthage: Bellum Punicum, units are a logistical masterpiece.
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Another great book on Punic Carthage and.more is The North African Stones Speak by Paul Lachlan MacKendrick
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One of my fav periods is the 3 Punic Wars - #Carthage & #Rome ending in the destruction of the North African city & annihilation of its citizens in 146 BC. The Punic War Companion has a number of chapters written by experts, edited by .Dexter Hoyos. Love it.
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#OTD On Feb 5, 146 BC, the Third Punic War ended with the fall of Carthage. The city was razed to the ground, its people were sold into slavery, and Rome established hegemony over the Mediterranean.
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Catapulta by Edward Poynter, 1868; modern depiction of a Roman siege engine during the siege of Carthage.
Today in #LaborHistory 2/5/1985: Third Punic War officially ended 2,131 years after it started in 149 BCE. Mayor of #Rome, met mayor of #Carthage to sign the treaty. Fighting only lasted 3 yrs w/450,000 Carthaginians deaths. No one knows how many Romans died.
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Poor #Carthaginian #elephant who died near #Cordoba www.livescience.com/archaeology/... #archaeology #wildlife #elephants #rome #carthage
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Walking into the Medina of Tunis, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, feels like entering another world. Narrow, winding alleys reveal colorful souks, artisans’ workshops, and the scent of jasmine and spices.
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This recent publication from our former student Dr. Eve MacDonald uses new archaeological analysis to uncover the history behind the legend of Carthage: "without Carthage, there would be no Rome". buff.ly/Ma2hUYq #Carthage #AncientRome #AncientHistory #AncientBluesky
2172 years ago saw the destruction of #carthage in #tunis & the #holocaust of its citizens by #rome.
Numbers are varied between 100,000-700,000 with 50,000 survivors sold into #slavery after the Romans went on a 7-day blood and rape filled rampage in the streets after a 3 year siege. #genocide.
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MOSAIC BORDER, C. 375 CE. THE BRITISH MUSEUM This suspiciously perfect, symmetrical mosaic fragment comes from a domus in Roman Carthage. It depicts two Roman dolphins facing each other, separated by a downward-turned trident, a symbol of Neptune. But these dolphin are harmless and delightful, extremely abstracted and possibly genetically merged with an acanthus plant, so scrolled are their fins. Their blank eyes show no malice and their beaks are toothless and made of red-brown tesseræ, while their bodies are mainly green-blue and they blaze forth against a white background.
#MosaicMonday gives us a rare example of Roman dolphins *not* conveying menace. This #mosaic in the #BritishMuseum was once part of a #frame for a huge floor in #Carthage from c. 375 CE with the months and seasons. Here's a different take on #Roman #dolphins: toothless beaks! #AncientBluesky 🏺
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