Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-06-08
A YOUNG CARTHAGINIAN OF
TODAY,
Arab BOY al the Door of Ilut-pho-
tosvaphcd for The News by
Frank g.. Carpenter.

feet higher The walls were used for
defense and for a barracks to contain
The army as well. In them We're stalls
for 80 war elephants, 1000 war horses,
and storage places sufficient To supply
all With food. There were quarters in
the walls for a larger army than the
United States had at the breaking out
of the Spanish war and this wall, as ]
have said was over 20 miles long.
Old Carthage had forum, market
place and magnificent public buildings.
1t had an artificial harbor, which the
French have restored In miniature and
this was so arranged that the entrance
could be shut up by chains at night.
The door leading into 1t was only 60
feet wide but this admitted the ships
to two ports, so connected that the ves-
sells could sail from one to the other
Old Carthage was a city of fine
houses and civilized people, 1t was Il
city which owned quantities OF gold and
precious stones, and one whose jewelrv.
as may be seen in the museum which
STANDS on its site, was equal to any
sold in our best stores today.
WORD ABOUT ROMAN CARTHAGE.
The Carthage I have described was
utterly destroyed 1i6 b. c.. and II was
almost half century before another
city began TO rise on its ruins. This
was the Carthage fostered bv Julius
Caesar and Augustus, which in time
became the Roman capital Of north
AFRICA, and which once almost rivaled
Rome itself. That Carthage was 81
city of theaters, the remains of which
still stand on the ruins of the old
Phoeniclan city. 1t was n city of
EladatOrial shows where Christians
were eaten by lions, gored to death by
Wild bulls and slaughtered by gladi-
ators. ON the hill 9f the museum I
O. u 1nf he. ,f s.,ts,
tclicitas, two young women who were
killed in the arena. which l describe
farther on.
Later still, when Rome was convert
cd, Carthage became the chief Chris
tiau city of Africa, while still holding
its place as one of the great ports of
the world. Here st. Augustine studied
and preached, and near here ST. Cyp-
rian, the martyr, was killed. When the
Nandals invaded Africa they made
Carthage their capital, and ii re-
NAMED great until the seventh century.
when the Mohammedan Arabs came
in and destroyed It.
A QUARRY FOR THE WORLD.
Since then Carthage has been n quar-
~ for the artistic building material of
all the palaces along the Mediterran
can sea. In the great mosque of Santa
Sophia, ut Constantinople, / saw mar
bile columns which came from here;
many OF the wonders of architectural
Rome originated in Carthage, and
shlploads of it's ruins have gone 10
Palermo and other Italian cities, Tho
places OF the Bey of Tunis are built
of Punic marble, and the baZars of
Tunis are tlauked with marble columns,
which the Arabs have painted over IN
red, yellow and green stripes, so that
they now look more like barber poles
than anything else.
Many of the houses of Tunis contain
materials from the same source, and
the ruins here have been furnishing
building stone OF one kind or another
for more than 1000 years.
During recent centuries the various
museums OF the world have been rob
bling this ancient city, ana travellers
also have been allowed To pick up and
| carry away what they pleased, This
| IS SO TODAY, although the French have
| established two museums one on the
| site OF old Carthage and the other at
| Bardo. I'm the palace of the hey. and
are trying 10 preserve what IS left,
EXPLORING THE RUINS.
The books about Africa will tell you
that there Is nothing of Carthage now
| Ia be seen except a few brokcn-down
cIsterns which once supplied the city
| with water. This is not so. The French
have been making excavations ever
since they have had runisia under their
control This rs So not only here but
| in an parts of the country, and they
have unearthed ruins which win COM
pare with those OF Athens ana Rome.
They are anxious 10 increase their
work along hose lines. and the re-
mains are such that II might well pay
our rich American colleges 10 establish
schools of exploration here, as they
nave done On old Greece.
Take thIs city OF Carthage alone and
imagine what might be found, sup
pose You could blot from the face OF
The United states either Boston
Philadelphia on ST. Louis, Suppose
you could destroy All the buildings and
cover them With earth Then let
thrm Vie for decades and build other
great cities on top. Then destroy
those cities, ana let the storms aud
dusi nf a thousand years settle upon
thom, ana you may have some idea
of the condition OF the ruins ~ Carr
1 thape today You must add, however.
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