Review Carthage Byrsa - Community-service in Carthage,Tunis,Tunisia

Carthage Byrsa - Community-service in Carthage,Tunis,Tunisia

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Tunis, Tunisia - 1054

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Detailed description is -Carthage,Carthago , Karthago Qart-hadasht du Phoenician : La nouvelle cité : the new city.Une merveilleuse ville en Tunisie. Fondée en 814 AJ sous la direction de Elissa-Byrsa: historiquement la premiere partie de carthage qui a été construite. THE LEGEND OF BYRSA. . Byrsa was the walled citadel above the harbour in ancient Carthage. It was also the name of . the hill it rested on. . . According to some sources, the name is derived from the Phoenician word for citadel ; . according to others it is a corruption of Barsat, which means stronghold in Phoenician . (referring to the 55 meters hill’ altitude), whereas in other sources it means oxhide. . The last interpretation (oxhide) for Byrsa could be related to the legend of Queen Elissa . (Queen Dido in Roman; Deido in Greek and Didon in Latin) whose life details are sketchy and . confusing: the beautiful Elissa and her brother Pygmalion were the children heirs of king . Matten of Tyre. Fearing her brother who had murdered her husband in hopes of gaining his . wealth, Elissa left Tyre with a group of followers including some senators. . The exiles, while passing through Cyprus, seized some other persons mainly women to . increase their number. . In Virgil and Justin’s accounts of Dido's founding of Carthage, when Dido and her followers . arrived on the coast of North Africa, they encamped at Byrsa. The local Berber chieftain . offered them as much land as could be covered with a single oxhide. Therefore, Dido cut an oxhide into tiny strips and set them on the ground end to end until she had completely . encircled Byrsa. This story is considered apocryphal, and was most likely invented because . Byrsa sounds similar to the Greek word βυρσα, meaning oxhide. (This event is . commemorated in modern mathematics: The "isoperimetric problem" of enclosing the . maximum area within a fixed boundary is often called the "Dido Problem" in modern Calculus . of variations. It has to be noted that an international conference on the isoperimetric problem . of Queen Dido and its mathematical ramifications was held in Tunis from 21 to 29 may 2010). . Many of the locals joined the settlement and both, locals and envoys from the nearby . Phoenician settlement of Utica, urged the building of the city of Carthage-Byrsa. While . digging the foundations, an ox's head was found, indicating a promising fertile soil but . doomed to perpetual slavery. So they carried the city to another location. There they found a . horse's head, which meant that the people would be powerful. Then the city was put on this . spot of favorable omen. . The creation of this legend ended sadly because Elyssa threw herself into the fire. In some . accounts it was to protect her city and remain faithful to her husband, after the king Hiarbas . asked her for marriage. In others, it was because she was unable to endure her . abandonment by Aeneas, the famous Trojan hero, with whom she fell in love when he . stopped on the shores of North Africa after a storm but who had to resume his journey to . found a new city in Italy, Rome. . Many sites (residences, hotels, restaurants, streets…) are today named after Elissa, Didon . and others, to pay homage to these heroes and their civilizations, which have made out of . Carthage, a place that will always continue to nourish the universal imagination with its . literary and historical renown. . THE REBIRTH OF BYRSA: THE BOY OF BYRSA . An important historical event, that has brought the toponym of Byrsa to the fore, is the . fortuitous discovery in 1994 of a sepulchre of a young man on the southern flank of the Byrsa . hill, which is one of the most famous sites of antique Carthage. A joint Franco-Tunisian team . moved in to excavate. An anthropological study of the skeleton showed that the man’s bones . were more than 2,500 years old, that he died sometime in the 6th century between the age of . 19 and 24, had a pretty robust physique and was 1.7 meter tall, according to a description by . Jean Paul Morel, director of the French archaeological team at Carthage Byrsa. . . The man from Byrsa has been rebaptised Ariche -- meaning the desired man -- at the . initiative of the Tunisian Culture Minister. Ariche has regained an almost living human . appearance very close in physiognomy to a Carthaginian of the 6th century B.C after a . dermoplastic reconstruction undertaken in Paris by Elisabeth Daynes, a sculptor specialising . in hyper-realistic reconstructions.

Established in the recent years Carthage Byrsa in carthage, tunis in tunisia.

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Qus: 1). what is the mode of payment accepted ?

Ans: Cash , Credit Card and Wallets

Qus: 2). What are the hours of operation ?

Ans: Open all days from 9:30 to 8:30 and exceptions on Sundays