African Architecture
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A pebble floor from a Carthaginian house, about 150 BC
When the Phoenicians invaded and colonized North Africa about 800 BC, they brought with them the idea of building in stone, and there were many stone temples to the goddess Tanit and other Phoenician gods in Carthage and the Carthaginian empire, all along the North African coast, from 800 BC down to 146 BC. The city of Carthage had stone houses, with drains and pebble floors.
A drain from a Carthaginian house
Carthaginian houses on the Byrsa hill, in Carthage
