🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Aptuca
Aptuca (Africa) or Henchir Oudeka, also known as Aptucca/Aptuca, Henchir-Oudeka/Henchir-Semmech. or Udeka is a village and archaeological site in Tunisia, North Africa located at 36.409344, 8.940301.
🇹🇳 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
Ausafa
Ausafa or Uzappa was a Roman era town, in the Roman province of Africa Proconsularis and in late antiquity Byzacena.
🇹🇳 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.
🇹🇳 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
Feradi maius
Pheradi Majius is a locality and archaeological site in Tunisia located at 36.250003°N 10.397047°E near the modern town of Sidi Khalifa in Sousse Governorate, Tunisia that is located at 36° 14′ 58″…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Henchir Khima (Bou Ficha)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Sahel olive road vicus with long press row and cisterns, typical Bydacena oleoculture landscape feeding Hadrumetum port.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Henchir-Khachoum
Henchir-Khachoum is a locality and series of archaeological sites in Sidi Bouzid Governorate modern Tunisia. The ruins are strewn along a tributary of the Oued El Hatech river east of Sbeitla.
🇹🇳 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
Thibaris (Henchir Hamamet)
Roman (1st–5th c CE) · Roman (Africa Proconsularis)
Medjerda road vicus with forum, baths and Christian basilica with mosaic epitaphs, controlling Siliana valley grain.
🇹🇳 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
Eles, Tunisia
Eles (also transliterated as Ellès and Al Las) is a village in the Siliana Governorate, Tunisia. It is located around 35°56′55″N 9°5′50″E, about 13 km northwest of Maktar in Siliana Governorate.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Ghar el-Melh
Ghar el-Melh (Arabic: غارالملح, Ghar al-Milh, "Salt Grotto"), the classical Rusucmona and Castra Delia and colonial Porto Farina, is a town and former port on the southern side of Cape Farina in…
🇹🇳 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
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 · Temple complex
Great Mosque of Kairouan
The Great Mosque of Kairouan (Arabic: جامع القيروان الأكبر), also known as the Mosque of Uqba (جامع عقبة بن نافع), is a mosque situated in the UNESCO World Heritage town of Kairouan, Tunisia and is…
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Archaeological wonder
Lake Ichkeul
Lake Ichkeul (Arabic: بحيرة اشكل, romanized: Buḥayra ʾIshkul) is a lake in northern Tunisia, located 20 kilometres (12 miles) to Bizerte, the northernmost city in Africa on the Mediterranean Sea.
🇹🇳 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.