Carthage's First Settlers
“The Bay of Tunis, c. 814 BCE. Queen Dido's Phoenician settlers cut the legendary 'oxhide' strip and lay out a new city. Foreground shows surveyors marking out the Byrsa hill with stakes and rope; midground reveals Tyrians unloading purple-dyed textiles from a ship; gentle hills and the wine-dark Mediterranean stretch beyond a city about to rival Rome.”
