Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Four of the five gold coins and some ceramic remains lie on the ground at the excavation site. Four of the five gold coins and ...

Archaeologists excavating the sacred tophet site in Carthage, a place of child sacrifice, found gold coins left as offerings 2,300 years ago, photos show. Photo from Tunisia’s Ministry of Cultural ...

A Brief History of Carthage Carthage’s origins date back to the 9th century BCE when Phoenician settlers from Tyre in current-day Lebanon, led by Queen Dido, established a thriving trading city. The ...