 The regional power had shifted to Kairouan and the Medina of Tunis in the medieval period, until the early 20th century, when it began to develop into a coastal suburb of Tunis, incorporated as Carthage municipality in 1919.The archaeological site was first surveyed in 1830, by Danish consul Christian Tuxen Falbe.Excavations were performed in the second half of the 19th century by Charles Ernest Beulé and by Alfred Louis Delattre.