Its fall came at the end of the Third Punic War in 146 BC at the Battle of Carthage, and all that remained was set ablaze and razed to the ground. More for You Chief Justice Roberts Sets Record ...

The military conquests of ancient Rome, including the conquest of Italy and the Punic Wars, which culminated in the destruction of Carthage by ... 476 marks the fall of the Western Roman Empire.

By the sixth century BCE, Carthage, a Phoenician coastal colony in what is now Tunisia, had risen to dominate the region, and Phoenician culture thrived farther west until its destruction in 146 BCE.