Tag: Tunisia
Recording Roman resource exploitation and urban collapse
For hundreds of years, Carthage—the Phoenician city-state in North Africa—flourished, establishing itself as a robust trade empire with widespread colonies. As the Carthaginian and...
Roman-era shipwreck discovered off Greek island of Kasos
Α Roman-era shipwreck, and evidence of other shipwrecks dating back to Greece’s classical and Hellenistic eras, has been discovered during the second underwater research...
Police seize three Roman sarcophagi in Tunisia
According to a press release issued by the Syndicat des fonctionnaires de la direction générale des unités d'intervention (SFDGUI) of Kairouan, an operation by...
Underwater archaeological sites discovered near Tunis
A team from the Tunisian National Heritage Institute (INP) has discovered a series of underwater archaeological sites of great historical value in the sea...
Passion for purple revives ancient dye in Tunisia
A Tunisian man has pieced together bits of a local secret linked to ancient emperors: how to make a prized purple dye using the...
Palaeontologists undertake rescue expedition to Tunisia
Palaeontologists Mohamad Bazzi and Benjamin Kear have recently returned from an expedition to Gafsa in southern Tunisia. Having arrived to collect fossils, once there...