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Under the auspices of the Ministry of Cultural Affairs, Mr. Tarek Baccouche, Director General of the National Heritage Institute, welcomed Mr. Bill Bazzi, U.S. Ambassador to Tunisia, to the Institute’s headquarters on Wednesday, April 8, 2026, to celebrate the completion of the “Tapestry Experience” project dedicated to the Roman amphitheater (more…)

The Director-General of the National Heritage Institute, Tarek Baccouche, Ambassador Alessandro Brunas and the Director of the Department for the Promotion of Cultural Heritage at the Italian Ministry of Culture, Alfonsina Russo, opened the closing ceremony of the Tunisian-Italian Days dedicated to the preservation and promotion of archaeological heritage, on (more…)

Koustiliya: a Tunisian-Italian project for the research and promotion of an archaeological site in southern Tunisia A multidisciplinary team from the National Heritage Institute (INP) and the University of Rome Tor Vergata is currently carrying out an archaeological field mission at the Koustiliya site (Touzeur), as part of a Tunisian-Italian (more…)

Several Roman columns and capitals from the Capitol Temple, statues of Roman gods, lanterns, and Byzantine mosaics at the site of Numluli during archaeological excavations in the public square and Byzantine church conducted by a multidisciplinary team as part of international cooperation projects between the National Heritage Institute of Tunisia (more…)