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The Romans forced the Carthaginians to pay tribute in talents of gold [ tons and tons of it]. When Carthage was destroyed the Romans went looking for the Carthaginian treasure. Nothing was found. Subsequent Roman emperors also went to Carthage, dug it up looking for the Carthaginian gold. Nothing. The Carthaginian fleet held off the Roman fleet whilst the Carthage elites, Elders and rear guard fled off with the treasure. The Carthaginians got their gold in African mines before the Romans were even born. The Carthaginians colonized the Gold Coast of Africa with 30,000 people and other places in Africa for 200 years before the Romans even were born. The Carthaginians fled westward away from the Romans with their treasure. The Iroquois have tales and legends of a bearded people who came to America, founded some ciies, had a battle. The Iroquois had no use for the gold so they just left it there. When the Dutch came to the Hudson River, they started killing the Lower Hudson River Indians for their red gold bracelets etc. [Cf. Henry Hudson`s sailor`s account.] they were wearing. When the Iroquois along the Mohawk River heard about this, they picked up all the gold and hid it in a cave. Some of The Carthaginians` gold was in the form of coins, probably, as their silver coins show an elephant on one side. Not one gold coin from Carthage that has an elephant on it has ever been found anywhere in the world, except one. It is pure gold, assayed in New York City in 1950` or later ?? It was was found in a cave in the mountains by a 2 Mohawk boys who knew where the gold cave was. They brought their white boy friend to the gold cave in 1840. The coin is still in a museum and can be seen today. It was handed down from the great grandfather. I heard stories of this “picking up the gold and hiding it in a cave coz the white man would kill you just to get the gold” story from my grandfather in my family oral tradition handed down since the 1850`s. I have a color pic photo of the elephant coin...It`s in my book...The Carthaginians even made it to England.

Queen Dido originally fled Tyre with the Phoenician treasure in 813 BC to escape from her brother Pygmalion who had killed her husband, the King of Tyre. She went thence to Cyprus and on to found Carthage...so it is a double treasure trove plus probably silver from Carthaginan mines in Spain......Silver is also hidden in a cave only 3 miles from the gold cave, but buried by a landslide in 1953; silver cave was found and attested to by an old Revolutionary War soldier`s account/diary told in 1797 before the Indian wars started in the 1800`s. Silver cave/Mine and silver was seen in 1953 by my friend before it was covered by the landslide..The silver was in bars, not coins. Some silver bars were recovered by the locals here just before the landslide.. Another 2 silver caves/mines were found one mile east & north resp., of the gold cave by a local historian in the late 1800`s. Another 2 silver caves were discovered in 1942, seven miles south of the gold cave in 1942 by a local historian.

The Tyrians colonized Carthage around the time the Rome started to grow under Etruscan rule, so, no. The foundation story (Elissa, princess of Tyre, a.k.a. Dido, fled her murderous brother's rule) suggests a foundation date of late 9th c BC, but the earliest strata are Egyptian (!).

But Barry Fell reports that Columbus was the first post-1492 European to record evidence for Precolumbian contact. On one of the islands and old guy who used to be a young free-diver was wearing a necklace, and according to Columbus the amulet turned out to be an ancient coin from the Med.