Out of all the great civilizations of the era, I find Carthage to be the most interesting. A mix between Phoenician, Hellenistic, and North African, Iberian(?) cultures creating a huge trading empire to take on the fledgling Res Publica and ultimately lose.
following the total destruction of Carthage by the Romans, did the Carthaginian culture and language completely disappear? Surely there must have been punic citizens maybe not in Carthage itself when it was destroyed? they were traders after all. Or what about the Balearic islands? Southern Iberia?
I just find it very interesting that such a dominant and powerful culture could have disappeared completely without maybe some refugee enclaves, maybe back to Phoenicia itself? Or to Hellas?
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