🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Kerkouane
Punic (Carthaginian) 6th–3rd c BCE · Carthaginian (Phoenician diaspora)
Only surviving pure Punic town, abandoned c.256 BCE with intact street grid, peristyle houses and purple-dye works.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Capsa (Gafsa)
Epipaleolithic to Modern (10,000 BCE-present; peak Capsian 8000-6000 BCE and Roman 1st-4th c CE) · Capsian Epipaleolithic / Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Capsian oasis fortress Capsa.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thignica (Ain Tounga)
Numidian to Late Antique (4th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Medjerda municipium with Saturn temples.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Belalis Maior
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Belalis Maior (Henchir el-Faouar) dominates a platform 8 km northeast of Béja, a fertile Tell city excavated by Mahjoubi since 1960. Revealed: monumental capitol (peripteral), Byzantine citadel 6th c.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Amphitheatre of El Jem (Thysdrus)
Roman Imperial (c.230–238 CE under Gordian I/II) · Roman (Africano)
Largest amphitheatre in Africa and third-largest in Roman world: olive-oil city Thysdrus (later Gordian revolt 238 CE) built c.238 CE, 149×124 m outer axes, 65×39 m arena, 35,000 capacity seating…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Assuras (Zanfour) – Theatre Hill Settlement
Numidian to Roman (2nd c BCE – 5th c CE) · Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Hill town commanding the High Tell, Assuras' theatre (68 m) crowns a limestone spur above Oued Zanfour, with forum, arch and Byzantine chapel. Libyco-Punic stelae and Roman epitaph...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Vazi Sarara
Punic/Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 2nd–5th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Vazi Sarara (Henchir Bez) is an inland Byzacena/ Africa Proconsularis colonia on the Siliana plain, founded as peregrine civitas and promoted colonia under Probus.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uzappa
Roman (1st–7th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Colonia with circus and amphitheatre on imperial saltus.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Tumulus
Pyramid Outlier Africa 73 — Tunisia Region 1
Period Neolithic · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Pyramid Outlier Africa 73 — Tunisia Region 1 in Tunisia Region 1, Tunisia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Chusira
The Diocese of Cusira is a home suppressed and titular see of the Roman Catholic Church. Cusira was a civitas of the Roman province of Byzacena, and is identifiable with Kessera (Kesra) in the…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Dougga (Thugga)
Numidian to Byzantine (6th c BCE–6th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman / Byzantine
Hilltop Numidian–Roman city covering 70 ha, Dougga is Tunisia's best-preserved Roman town with Capitol, theatre, Ataban mausoleum and Punic sanctuary.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Gigthis (Bou Grara)
Punic to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; Roman peak 2nd c) · Punic / Roman / Byzantine
10-ha causeway port with unique twin Antonine and Old Forums and Djerba lagoon mole.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uthina (Oudhna)
Numidian to Early Islamic (2nd c BCE–9th c CE; peak 2nd–4th c) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine / Early Islamic
90-ha Augustan veteran colonia with half-buried 16,000-seat amphitheatre and Zaghouan-fed baths.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Mactaris (Makthar)
Numidian to Byzantine (8th c BCE-10th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine
Highland city with dolmens and schola.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Meninx (Djerba) – Phoenician-Roman Port
Phoenician to Late Antiquity (7th c BCE – 7th c CE; peak 2nd–3rd c CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Two-kilometre strand city on Djerba's southeastern causeway shore, Meninx was the island's Phoenician emporion turned Roman civitas capital, famed for murex purple second only to T...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Utica
Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Late Antique · Phoenician / Roman
Phoenician port 1101 BCE now 12 km inland due to siltation; Roman capital of Africa with waterfall mosaic house.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Sicca Veneria (El Kef)
Numidian to Ottoman (5th c BCE-16th c CE; peak 1st-4th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Rock citadel of Venus with baths.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thubursicum Bure
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Thubursicum Bure (modern Téboursouk) controls the Khalled–Siliana pass, a Berbero-Roman municipium with Massylian roots.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Uchi Maius (Henchir Douamis)
Numidian to Late Antique (5th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Hill town 20 km from Dougga with Severan arch and aqueduct.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburnica (Sidi Ali Belgacem)
Roman (Late Republic to Late Antiquity; peak 1st–3rd c. CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Veteran colonia near Chemtou with monumental Roman bridge and basilica.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thigibba Bure (Djebba) – Hilltop Sanctuary
Numidian to Byzantine (3rd c BCE – 7th c CE) · Numidian / Punic / Roman
Ridge refuge 540 m above Bagrada plain, Thigibba Bure preserves Punic walls, Roman sanctuary terrace, mausoleum, baths and Christian basilica with mosaics, amid fig orchards famed...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Jebil National Park
Jebil is a national park in Tunisia situated within the Grand Erg Oriental in the Sahara desert.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburbo Parvum
Carthaginian to Byzantine (4th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Punic / Roman
Sister city to Thuburbo Majus with olive press park (15 presses).
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Tumulus
Fortress Citadel Africa 5 — Tunisia Region 5
Period Bronze Age · Regional culture Africa-Tumulus
Fortress Citadel Africa 5 — Tunisia Region 5 in Tunisia Region 5, Tunisia is a Neolithic tumulus with stratified deposits and regional significance. Excavations reveal architectural phasing.