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.
@dftp4 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 .
@canchero7244 ай бұрын
Why would it? Humans haven't changed at all and will keep doing human things
@TylerD2884 ай бұрын
It's okay because they were Roman.
@hrh49614 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!
@kaloarepo2884 ай бұрын
How could you possibly fit whole stone blocks in duffle bags and then carry them around ? It would be impossible!
@alaingadbois22764 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.
@cracklingsoda2 ай бұрын
How are you doing now Sir?
@avigilR4 ай бұрын
Thank you so much for being there in person! You are fulfilling dreams of those who could never go.
@karimabidi83123 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
@Lorfarius16 күн бұрын
These are really great videos, don't know why the channel isn't more popular!
@bobloblaw100016 күн бұрын
This is sort of a rougher, more experimental channel than his main channel. The algorithm forces people to set it up this way. Because to get recommended by the algorithm each new video needs to be a blockbuster. So putting less exciting stuff on the main channel would threaten the financial viability of that channel.
@Peter-MH4 ай бұрын
Amazing that the imprint of this harbour remains - makes me think of the one in Ephesus!
@inthenebula924 ай бұрын
Thank you for letting us live vicariously through you! I've never seen these ruins before.
@karimabidi83123 ай бұрын
Why don't you visit them then? Honest interest
@richardglady3009Ай бұрын
Wonderful video…again. Thanks! Thank you for traveling around the Mediterranean filming these ruins and posting your results.
@larsrons79374 ай бұрын
Thanks for an interesting tour. Ancient Carthage must have been impressive.
@MKfanmomo4 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-lb7wt2 ай бұрын
I'm here now id love to see more
@arnian65444 ай бұрын
Thank you for going to Carthage. Its history is still a mystery (at least from their perspective) and not as wildly appreciated 👏
@bobfrog48364 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!
@alaingadbois22764 ай бұрын
There’s so much around Carthage to make more than one video.
@scenicroutestothepast4 ай бұрын
Stay tuned for my video on the Zaghouan Aqueduct
@thepharaohnerd72354 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.
@67icebowl2 ай бұрын
Title & author?
@karimjerbi70844 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
@scoon21174 ай бұрын
I hope to hear more about Carthage!!!
@drscopeify4 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.
@kidmohair81514 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.56Goldtop4 ай бұрын
I have seen renderings of the harbor and it was truly magnificent!
@scrollop4 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!
@t.vanoosterhout2334 ай бұрын
Now looking forward to your exploration of the ruins of Sparta!
@johnsongibbs65674 ай бұрын
Great work. Thanks.
@jackmcnair37224 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
@Charliemmag4 ай бұрын
Fascinating!
@khodotany4 ай бұрын
I really enjoyed your videos! Highly recommended you visit Lebanon for some amazing Roman ruins.
@Redeka94 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.
@scenicroutestothepast4 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_cursor4 ай бұрын
I actually came here to say the same thing. Nice video for sure though!
@johnmrke27864 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.
@johnmrke27864 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_cursor4 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.
@jeffreywilliams34214 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.
@marcobelli68564 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
@phoule762 ай 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.
@CarthagoMike4 ай бұрын
Great video as always!
@munbruk4 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.
@nunyabiznes334 ай бұрын
They didn't cared about it.
@munbruk4 ай бұрын
@@nunyabiznes33 Yes
@karlnapp27404 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-Grandad4 ай бұрын
Yet the Romans fought pirates from Arabia . . .
@user-kt8hf9tx6h4 ай бұрын
Sounds plausible. It took a bit of time for Arabs to gain considerable naval strength, even after their vast initial conquests.
@RevisitingHistoryChannel4 ай бұрын
So interesting
@mikehenryse4 ай бұрын
Are there any remnants left from the Vandal kingdom?
@TylerD2884 ай бұрын
Good question.
@frugalvanner74884 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.
@pggemmiti93854 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.
@markloewen2677Ай бұрын
I have always dreamed of traveling to Tunisia. Particularly to visits the ancient ruins. How safe is it to travel there ? And also , which islands are visible as you panned the camera out across the bay
@terryhughes73494 ай бұрын
nice tour.
@lukesmith18184 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
@gaius_enceladus4 ай бұрын
"Carthago delenda est, by Jupiter!"
@thomasxxxxxx23452 ай 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?
@woodpecker-ue2rq4 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,
@michaeldriskell20384 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.😊
@vikingodin19864 ай бұрын
Damn good im enjoying your channels
@Psychol-Snooper4 ай бұрын
0:02 Is that a young walnut tree in the bottom right of the image?
@budwyzer77Ай бұрын
2:10 have they found any evidence of a brothel near the children's graveyard?
@nycgweed4 ай бұрын
Great episode definitely like to see more Roman stone outside rome❤
@elcoreano114 ай бұрын
Carthage depended too much on mercenaries. Hannibal was also hampered by not getting the resources he needed.
@nunyabiznes334 ай бұрын
The channel name changed?
@solokalnesaltam30154 ай бұрын
Yes! Carthage!!
@gaemlinsidoharthi4 ай бұрын
Not often we see the Romans as the new kids on the block.
@lebaguette53932 ай бұрын
ℭ𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥𝔞𝔤𝔬 𝔡𝔢𝔩𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔞 𝔢𝔰𝔱.
@armorer944 ай бұрын
Carthago delenda est.
@martinfernandez8824 ай бұрын
This bro is such a good presenter.
@JAdams-jx5ek4 ай бұрын
Carthago dalenda est!!! CARTHAGO DALENDA EST!!!!
@dftp4 ай бұрын
Are you ok?
@JAdams-jx5ek4 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-jj4jv4 ай бұрын
DELENDA...!
@PauloPereira-jj4jv4 ай бұрын
@@JAdams-jx5ek... DELENDA.
@JAdams-jx5ek4 ай бұрын
@@PauloPereira-jj4jv Google translate from Latin.
@BORN-to-Run4 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.
@codyzwick27534 ай бұрын
Lebanon and Tunis
@BORN-to-Run4 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.
@lookoutforchris4 ай бұрын
All the Semitic cultures sacrificed children surprisingly late in history. Some groups still do, even in the US.
@pinchevulpes4 ай бұрын
Really which groups 🙄
@BC-kc6em4 ай бұрын
I think central and southern Semitic cultures didn't do this practice as far as I know.
@EllieMaes-Grandad4 ай бұрын
@@BC-kc6em Judaism didn't, since the days of Abraham.
@EllieMaes-Grandad4 ай бұрын
Meanwhile, across the world, hundreds of thousands of infants in the womb are being deliberately killed each year . . .
@BC-kc6em4 ай бұрын
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Abraham is not a jew
@paulkoza86524 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.
@TylerD2884 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.
@squireboone7616Ай бұрын
Moloch
@blue-vu1ek4 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.