The Punics & the Ancient Forum of Severus' Bascilica Пунийцы и античный форум базилики императора Септимия Севера в Лептис Магн

In between the 1st and 3rd centuries A.D., the rich Roman province Tripolitania was comprised of three coastal cities named Sabrata, Leptis Magna and Oea, better known as Tripoli. Thanks to advanced digital reconstruction, we will see the Forum off Leptis Magna come to life again. The Forum was already famous in ancient times for the Severus' Bascilica, one of the largest buildings ever erected. The Punics (from Latin pūnicus, pl. pūnici) were a group of western Semitic-speaking peoples from Carthage in N