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Phoenician traders from Tyre founded Carthage in North Africa — the same Tyre that supplied Solomon's temple was now building a Mediterranean empire.
Around 814 BCE, Phoenician colonists from Tyre (yes, that Tyre from the Bible) founded Carthage in modern-day Tunisia. The city would grow into one of the most powerful trading empires in the ancient world, eventually rivaling Rome itself. The Phoenicians were the same people Hiram of Tyre represented when he helped Solomon build the Temple — their seafaring and trading networks connected the entire Mediterranean. Straight up the ancient world's logistics kings.
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