After the fall of carthage   rome spreaded a legend that carthage was found by phenician princess ilisa because it was known in that era that any civilization that was found by a women was doomed  also  there was none historical proof of the existence of elisa or her legend or her brother or her father in the history of the phenician   the only source was rome and a  Greek  historian    also if it was really phenician the number doesn't work because carthage population grew up exponentially and it can't be that immigration from Liban cause it even if phenician when they came and reproduced it doesn't work also carthage was known for trading with some crystal material that was made there especially with the phenician so why did the phenician bring up this  technology (it was considered like that in their time ) to sell it back in Lebanon   the only rational conclusion that carthage was formed by the indigenous people and grew from the trad with the phenician also the trace of the phenician dna in carthage was only logical to be caused from trading not from founding carthage