Dido building Carthage, or The Rise of the Carthaginian Empire is an oil on canvas painting by JMW Turner.

Turner exhibited a companion piece, The Decline of the Carthaginian Empire, at the summer exhibition in 1817.

The Babylonian, Alexandrian, Carthaginian and Roman Empires are emphasized on the map, in an orderly sequence.

The Romans arrived to occupy the island of Ibiza after defeating and destroying Carthaginian Empire in 146 BC.

The Magonid Family of Carthage played a central role between 550 - 375 BC in the political and military affairs of the Carthaginian Empire.

Carthage is a suburb of Tunis, Tunisia, with a population of 20,715 (2004 census), and was the centre of the Carthaginian Empire in antiquity.

The main cause of the Punic Wars was the conflict of interests between the existing Carthaginian Empire and the expanding Roman Republic.

Some Canaanites had already become Phoenicians and colonized areas of the southern Mediterranean, and they went on to found the Carthaginian Empire.

Of tradition, a local princess named Himilce married Hannibal and gained the alliliance of the city with the Carthaginian Empire.

Another popular destination is Carthage, a 3,000-years-old Phoenician colony and capital of the ancient Carthaginian Empire.