The city of Ibiza, Ebusos, capital of the island, was founded by Carthage in the year 654 BC. Ebusus was originally a colony of fishermen and fish saladores. Salting industry was so important that the products were exported to Ibiza all Mediterranean countries. Ebusus of the Carthaginians were good farmers, figs, beans, onions, olives abusitanas were famous. The purple cartaginenes also developed at the expense of some very abundant molluscs on the shores of Ibiza. Especially important were ebusitanas ceramic industries.

Ebusos ultimately, over time, an important military base and a large factory, the third largest metropolis with the establishment Carthage and Sardinia. Hence, the entire island of Ibiza is still a rich archaeological site, perhaps more importantly, that the Carthage destroyed by the Romans, and Sardinia, which soon suffered a total romanization. Scholars to reconstruct the culture and art Punics have to go to the island of Ibiza, which has the second best museum of the second world of the specialty, and the enduring things that many still speak of Carthage