American Carthage - The American Scholar

American Carthage - The American Scholar

Carthage, Tunisia   There are many Americans in Carthage, and most are dead. Buried in the North Africa American Cemetery, on the outskirts of this storied suburb of Tunis, they lie in the same mixture of clay and limestone granules that received the remains of Hannibal’s Carthaginians during the Punic Wars, some 2,000 years ago. Unlike the Romans (rivals to the ancient Carthaginians) and the French (whose conquest of Tunisia began in 1881), we …