Siege of Carthage (Third Punic War)

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After three years of siege, Rome razed Carthage block by block in 146 BCE, sold 50,000 survivors into slavery, and the general Scipio Aemilianus wept — quoting Homer about Troy — as the city burned for 17 days.

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Romans inscribed enemies' names on lead tablets, rolled them tight, drove nails through them, and buried them at tombs or threw them into springs — asking the restless dead to drag the living down.

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Besieged in Syracuse, Agathocles loaded 14,000 men onto ships and invaded Carthage directly — turning his own siege inside out. He reputedly drank from enemy skulls and rose from a potter's wheel to a throne.

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