🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sicca Veneria (El Kef) – Numidian Cult Citadel
Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-top Venus cult city of Numidia–Rome, now kasbah-crowned El Kef.
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139 places in the atlas, 8 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-top Venus cult city of Numidia–Rome, now kasbah-crowned El Kef.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician to Ottoman (1100 BCE–16th c; peak 2nd–4th c) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Early Christian / Islamic
Phoenician-tradition colonia under Sousse medina with 5.5 km catacombs, Virgil mosaic and Byzantine kasbah.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Phoenician to Byzantine (11th c. BCE wording – 7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Punic / Roman African
Tyrian port older than Carthage — 320m Punic-Roman mole now reef off Sousse kasbah, overlaid by modern beach.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st c.–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Episcopal village over spring with Saturn stelae and church.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Roman (3rd c BCE – 5th c CE) · Numidian / Roman
Applicant for royal Zama where Scipio defeated Hannibal 202 BCE on adjacent plain (battlefield scatter 5 km). Royal town with temple podium, walls and Byzantine fort shows Numidian...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Late Antiquity (4th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Punic-Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
15-ha Punic–Numidian to Roman colonia on Carthage–Theveste road with three arches and Byzantine fortress.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Bronze Age to Byzantine (legionary 1st–2nd c; civil to 7th c) · Berber / Roman / Byzantine; dolmens Berber
Frontier legion fortress 14 CE of Legio III Augusta with Byzantine mega-fort and 100+ Bronze Age haouanet dolmens on hills.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–4th c. CE) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Acholla (Henchir Botria/Boutria) is a coastal Byzacena city founded Punic 5th c. BCE and Roman colonia, famed for its Trajanic amphitheatre (one of Africa's largest, ~6,000 seats), Byzantine fortress…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic / Roman / Byzantine (4th c BCE–7th c CE) · Punic / Roman
Roman–Punic oil port with amphitheatre and thermae on Gulf of Gabès.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Byzantine (814 BCE–698 CE; Punic peak 550–146 BCE; Roman from 44 BCE) · Phoenician/Punic / Roman / Byzantine / Vandal
Phoenician metropolis founded 814 BCE by Tyrian princess Elissa (Dido), Carthage became Mediterranean superpower until Third Punic War destruction 146 BCE, then rebuilt as Roman Africa capital.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Cliffside municipium with mausolea and nymphaeum over waterhole.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Capsian Mesolithic / Numidian / Roman / Byzantine · Capsian then Numidian / Roman
Artesian oasis pools of Roman Capsa, type-site of Capsian Mesolithic.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) · Medieval
Gobero Cemetery Paleolake in Matmata, Tunisia is a Early Bronze Age (3000–2000 BCE) ancient city attributed to Medieval culture.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Modern (3rd c. BCE–present; bridge Roman) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Medjerda bridge town with 8-arch Roman bridge still in use.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Punic to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–4th c. CE) · Punic / Roman (Byzacena)
Punic-Roman harbour colonia on Salakta peninsula with catacombs and oil port.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman-Christian
Hill municipium with double temples and siphon aqueduct.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Municipium on Fahs plain with forum, amphitheatre earthwork and aqueduct feeder.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Roman Imperial (Flavian–Byzantine, 1st–7th c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Roman colonia with Flavius mausoleum, Severan arch and 2nd-c. dam.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Vandal (3rd c. BCE–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Christian
Municipium with theatre, circus and martyr basilica (303 CE).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Islamic (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Byzacena hilltop municipium with capitol temple and Byzantine citadel.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Hot-spring road station with bath complex and Byzantine granary fort.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Byzacena civitas with Antonine arch and Saturn sanctuary (200 stelae).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Ridge municipium controlling Dougga plain with triple arch and capitol.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Submerged site
Punic to Byzantine (5th c. BCE – 6th c. CE) · Punic / Roman Byzacena
Tyrian purple-dye port with murex basins and moles half in surf at Ras Boutria cape, wealthy enough to mint double coins.
