Ancient Rome · SITE OF MEMORY · 146 BC
Destruction of Carthage (146 BC)
146 BC — After a three-year siege, six days of street fighting end a 700-year city. Perhaps 50,000 survivors are enslaved; the site is cursed. Scipio Aemilianus weeps — for Rome’s future, he says.
- When
- 146 BC
- Type
- Site of memory
- Chapter
- Roman conquest of Greece (chapter 3 of Ancient Rome)
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- The Rise and Fall of Rome, 264 BC – AD 476
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