Phoenician Seafaring and the Rise of Carthage, c. 1100–650 BC | Calm Bedtime History
Around 800 BC, ships entered the sheltered Gulf of Tunis and approached a peninsula that would become the site of Carthage. The earliest excavated traces belong chiefly to the 8th century BC, while the traditional foundation date of 814/813 BC survives in later ancient accounts.
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