🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Pupput
Punic to Islamic (6th c BCE–9th c CE; peak 2nd–4th c) · Punic / Roman / Early Christian / Byzantine
1.2-ha rescue site under Hammamet with 3000+ tombs, House of Horses mosaics and Commodan colonia remains.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Zama Regia (Siliana) – Battle Plain & Town
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
Musti (Mustis)
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
Acholla
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
Archaeological Site of Carthage
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
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 · 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 · 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
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
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 · Archaeological wonder
Raqqada
Aghlabids
9th-century capital of the Aghlabid Emirate, near present-day Kairouan, Tunisia
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Al-Abbasiyya
Al-Abbasiyya (Arabic: العباسية, romanized: al-Abbāsiyya, lit. 'the Abbasid place'), also known as Qasr al-Aghaliba (قصور الأغالبة, 'the Aghlabid palaces') and al-Qasr al-Qadim (القصر القديم, 'the old…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Bou-Hedma National Park
Bou-Hedma National Park is located in both the Gafsa Governorate and Sidi Bouzid Governorate, in Tunisia.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Henchir-Tebel
Henchir-Tebel is a town and archaeological site in Al Qayrawān, Tunisia, near Kairouan Henchir-Tebel is 118 metres above sea level.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Althiburos
Numidian to Byzantine (7th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 2nd c) · Numidian / Punic / Roman / Early Christian
12-ha Dorsale hilltop city with Hadrian arch, forum, and 500+ dolmen necropolis showing Numidian continuity.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Kairouan
Kairouan or Kairwan (UK: KYRE(-uu)-WAHN, US: kair-WAHN), also spelled El Qayrawān (Arabic: ٱلْقَيْرَوَان, romanized: al-Qayrawān, pronounced [æl qɑjrɑˈwæːn]; Tunisian Arabic: قيروان, romanized:…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga
classical antiquity · Kingdom of Numidia
The Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga (Mausoleum of Atban) is an ancient mausoleum located in Dougga, Tunisia.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
El Brij, Tunisia
El Brij, is a village of Tunisia, at latitude 36°48'13.44" and Longitude 10°36'8.95" on the Cape Bon peninsula near the village of Sidi Rais and Korbous.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Carthage Palace
Carthage Palace (Arabic: قصر قرطاج) is the presidential palace of Tunisia, and the official residence and seat of the President of Tunisia.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Beni Otsmane
Beni Otsmane is a village of Tunisia which lies on the Cape Bon peninsula near the village of Sidi Rais and Korbous.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Thuburbo Minus (Tebourba) – Amphitheatre & Capitol
Roman (1st c BCE – 7th c CE; colony under Hadrian) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis) / Early Christian
Road town on the fertile Medjerda floodplain, Thuburbo Minus became Hadrianic colonia with Capitol, baths, amphitheatre (56×46 m oval) destroyed 1680 for bridge stone, and olive pr...
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Bir-Abdallah
Bir-Abdallah is a locality in southern Tunisia, in North Africa. It is located at 35° 33' 10" N, 9° 56' 28" E.