The doors of the Tunis medina
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(Français) Recherches archéologiques à la Kasbah de Tunis
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Dougga Monuments
The Caracalla Baths, The Early Empire, The Temple of Caracalla’s victory in Dougga The Caracalla Baths The public baths were bathing establishments to which the Romans added the palaestra for practising physical exercise. Going to the baths was an important part of daily life in Rome as in the other cities of (more…)
Thugga
Introduction Witnesses to more than twenty-five centuries of history, the vestiges of Dougga are considered amongst the most spectacular, not only of Tunisia but also of the entire Maghreb. Location and geographic position: Situated in northwest Tunisia, in mountainous country where the temperature is relatively cool and where, in a (more…)
Sousse
Founded in the IInd century BC by the Phoenicians to serve as a homeport for their trading vessels in the western Mediterranean, Sousse underwent spectacular development during the Roman period and stood out as one of the main cities of Africa. Nothing of significance occurred during the Vandal or Byzantine (more…)
(Français) LE RIBAT DE SOUSSE
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(Français) Kerkouane
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(Français) Macthar
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(Français) Oudhna
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Tunis medina
Historical background 1) Tunis during Antiquity Arab Tunis was not created from scratch; it succeeded to a more ancient city which itself had Berber origins. Some historians, on the basis of Berber data, suggest that the place name ‘Tynes” or « Tunes », slightly modified to give Tunis, belonged to the Libyc civilisation, (more…)
