Carthaginian Culture

I have just started to read Carthage Must be Destroyed: The rise and fall of an ancient civilization by Richard Miles and it is already clear ( he states as much) that most of what we know is filtered & coloured by how the Romans wished to show Carthage as their bogey man.

The Carthaginians were Semites who settled in North Africa. They worshipped Molech and made very fine glass beads

Carthaginian glass head from 400 BC

So Carthaginians weren't descended from Phoenicians? Who exactly were their ancestors?

But they did share the same ancestors. Israel's conquest of Canaan might explain why so many Semite refugees fled by sea and founded a new colony in Africa

I read somewhere that  the similarity between the Catragenian and the Phoenician cultures was the same as between the American and and British ones.

Why did Alexander never attack Carthage?Earth had shifted suddenly and Carthage came there after
His death?Before Alexander nobody attacked Rome&Carthage.Why?No Aliens please even if ancestors of those here on Balkans,Romans=Eastern&Western,insist on it as possible solution.According mental state of their mind:Hmmmm...

Reason are the same for both of them:there were no bigger habitats on those territories than fishermen towns.Hindu migration groups&others conflict had been exposed in history books.Hindu-European history books have reedited all the rest.Aliens&Predators conflict is missing about last 2300 years in books.But new chapter follows now...(I mean towns:Rome&Cartage in Alexander's time)

Originally posted by medenaywe Why did Alexander never attack Carthage?Earth had shifted suddenly and Carthage came there afterHis death?Before Alexander nobody attacked Rome&Carthage.Why?No Aliens please even if ancestors of those here on Balkans,Romans=Eastern&Western,insist on it as possible solution.According mental state of their mind:Hmmmm...

He died before he could even conquer India or Arabia? We have evidence a Carthaginian visited Alexander and found him hostile.

Its quite easy to trace Carthage's or Rome's rise to prominence through the ancient historians and archaeological evidence. Carthage gradually took over the Phoenecian trade lanes and Phoenecian colonies. There is archaeological evidence for a Punic presence in the Azores West Africa, Spain, Africa. What evidence do you want? I can probably find it because there is plenty of it.