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oldest guides of humankind on the way to civilization." Cheikh Anta Diop

Carthage was a Black Civilization

Who built the brilliant civilization today situated in Tunisia? What was the phenotype of those
men and women who have erected this harbor which dominated the west Mediterranean? What
was the people that ruled upon Spain and from which came the regent Hannibal, who almost
destroyed the Roman Empire?

Carthaginians were from Djahi (Phoenicia); and Phoenicians told us where they were from. In
addition, the Swiss anthropologist Eugene Pittard and the French Stephane Gsell, Lucien
Bertholon and Ernest Chantre have, in the turn of the 20th century, opened sarcophagus,
collected the Carthaginians’ bodies and analyzed the skulls they found. Their conclusions, like
we will see, are doubtless.

3D reconstitution of Carthage
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Phoenicians – who were the Carthaginians’ ancestors – situate in the antique texts of Ras
Shamra their origins in Africa, at the very frontiers of Egypt [1]. Their religion that was the same
as the Carthaginians’ was copied from the Gods of the Egyptian pantheon [2]. Phoenicians were
then Blacks who lived in the Near East. It was those Phoenicians who civilized Europe by
i n t r o d u c i n g w r i t i n g i n G r e e c e around 2786 of the A f r i c a n e r a , it is to say 1450 before the
Christian era [3] and founded Carthage in 3414 [4].

Before reading the European anthropologists conclusions, first it’s necessary to know the

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difference between a white skull be it Semite or European, and a Black one.

The Black one is long from the front to the rear, this is called D o l i c h o c e p h a l i s m . It has the jaw
pushed forward, it is called P r o g n a t h i s m . Plus it has a shorter face. The White one has a short
head from the front to the rear, it is B r a c h y c e p h a l i c . Its jaw is vertically on the same line as the
forehead, it is called O r t h o g n a t h i s m . Finally, it has a longer face.

On the left the Black skull has prognathism, is dolichocephalic, with a short face. On the right the White
skull has orthogonathism, is brachycephalic, with a long face.

Knowing that the Phoenicians – who were great merchants and civilizers – have been
everywhere on the Mediterranean, we found their skulls almost everywhere and this is the
description made by the Swiss anthropologist Eugene Pittard (1867-1962) – founder of the
Museum of ethnography and the first awarded of the anthropology chair of the Geneva
University – about the skulls found in Syracuse in Italy: ‘the examined skulls were compressed
on the temples and in an almost rhomboid form; a v e r y p r o m i n e n t d e n t a l a p p a r e l and well-
conditioned…; they are d o l i c h o c e p h a l i c and p r o g n a t h i c , what is the feature of the buried race
(skulls of the west of Syracuse)’ [5].

Lucien Bertholon (1854-1914), founder of the Institute of

Carthage, has examined skulls from Carthage. 1 0 0 % h a d
s h o r t f a c e a n d / o r d o l i c h o c e p h a l i s m [ 6 ] . Stephane Gsell
(1864-1932), director of the museum of Alger, said the
following about Bertholon’s work: ‘several skulls, collected
in the cemeteries present N e g r o i d f e a t u r e s ’ [7].

Eugene Pittard says about the discoveries of Bertholon and

also the description the latter made about the Basque
whom he thought were a branch of the Carthaginians: ‘he

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gave men he considered were the current living

descendants of the ancient Carthaginians, describing the
following: those subjects had b r o w n s k i n (not to say
Black). This has to do with the fact that Phoenicians used to
paint their statues with a b r o w n - r e d color in order to
imitate the color of the teguments…their n o s e s is
sometimes slightly concave. It is very often f l e s h y and
sometimes with the point of their noses loaded. The mouth
Eugène Pittard
is medium sized, sometimes large. The l i p s a r e v e r y o f t e n
t h i c k , the cheekbones are low’. [5]

Bertholon said about a sarcophagus of a member of the elite: ‘another sarcophagus (n°4), found
in the bottom of a well 14 meters deep, contained along with a rich funerary furniture a female
skeleton which presented as N e g r o i d f e a t u r e s a low skull, arched and ogival-shaped,
microsemic eye orbit, an almost p l a t y r h i n i a n (flat) nose, an average p r o g n a t h i s m , with a dental
arch curb almost parabolic’ [5]

Carthaginian colons

And Pittard concluded the subject with the description of the members of the Carthaginian elite
as follows: ‘Other bones found in the Punic Carthage taken to the Museum of Lavigerie, come
from subjects discovered in particular sarcophagus and in all probability belong to the
Carthaginian elite. The skulls are almost d o l i c h o c e p h a l i c and with a rather s h o r t f a c e ’ [5].

We can see that the Carthaginians’ funerary rites were similar to those of the Egyptians. Finally
he said the following regarding the great Priestess of Tanit, one of the most important people of
Carthage: ‘Those who, during these last years have visited the Museum of Lavigerie in Carthage,
remember this magnificent sarcophagus of the Priestess of Tanit, discovered by the professor
Delatre. This sarcophagus, which is the most adorned, the most artistic, among all that have
been discovered, and which external image probably represents the Goddess herself, must have

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been the sepulcher of a very high religious person. Yet the woman who was buried in it presented
N e g r o i d f e a t u r e s . S h e w a s o f A f r i c a n r a c e !’ [5]

As for Stephane Gsell, he concludes the following

‘…anthropological analyses of the skeletons found in Carthage
prove that there is no racial or ethnic unity… the S e m i t i c t y p e
(White Berber) characterized by a round face, a thin aquiline
nose h a s n o t b e e n f o u n d in Carthage. On the other hand, the
d o l i c h o c e p h a l i c type with a s h o r t f a c e , a body more stretched
out that the legs is a common feature to the skeletons found in
Lebanon and in Tyra (match with the Phoenicians who also were
Negroid)… t h e m a j o r i t y o f t h e C a r t h a g i n i a n p o p u l a t i o n w a s
N e g r o i d …’ [8]

C o n c l u s i o n : Carthage is a Black civilization, of African culture

and spirituality, even though the Phoenician language was a
Semitic language, because of the contact with Whites from
Asia. We do not understand why Berbers claim that civilization,
yet they know – even without knowing their race – that
Carthaginians were Phoenicians. Let’s be clear, this flourishing
harbor, this army that almost defeated the Roman Empire, this
republic which have been until Spain – partially explaining the
mixed skin color of the Spanish – belongs to all humanity, but it
is the property of Blacks. Stéphane Gsell

PS : We have also demonstrated i n t h i s s e c o n d a r t i c l e that

Hannibal was black.

Hotep!

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Notes :

[1] Nations Nègres et Culture (Negro Nations and Culture), Cheikh Anta Diop, page 170.
[2] Idem, pages 169, 170.
[3] Idem, pages 171.
[4] Idem, pages 183,
[5] Idem, page 187.
[6] Recherches anthropologiques dans la Berbérie orientale (Anthropological researches in
the Eastern Barbarism), Lucien Bertholon and Ernest Chantre, pages 280 and 281.
[7] Histoire ancienne de l’Afrique du nord (Ancient history of North Africa), Stephane Gsell,

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page 174.
[8] African presence in Early Europe, Evan Van Sertima, pages 137, 138

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