The Sack of Carthage
“North African coast, 146 BCE. Roman legionaries pour through the breached walls of Carthage as the city burns. Foreground shows Scipio Aemilianus reining his horse before a column of toppled cedar trees; midground reveals Carthaginians dragged in chains past the Byrsa hill; the harbor in the distance is choked with sinking quinqueremes and a sky stained with smoke.”
