Archive Thursday July 31st, 2025

As part of the project to develop and promote the ‘tophet’ in Carthage, excavations and scientific fieldwork are continuing at the temple of Tanit and Baal Hammon, where the project’s scientific team has discovered a large number of jars and votive offerings, some dating back to the 5th century, or (more…)

As part of Tunisian-Italian cooperation between the Institut National du Patrimoine and the Parco Archeologico del Colosseo in Rome, a project to restore the mosaics in the Roman dwellings of El Jem (Thysdrus) was launched in 2025. This involved an initial operation in April and a second from 09 June (more…)

As part of an international cooperation agreement between the Institut National du Patrimoine and La Rochelle University, the research project on the archaeological site of Thapsus (Bekalta, Monatsir) was continued with the fifth archaeological mission from 26 April to 23 May 2025, under the responsibility of researchers Yamen Sghaïer (INP) (more…)

As part of an international cooperation agreement between the INP and ICAC, the research project on the archaeological site of Sidi Saïd (Bargou, Siliana) was launched with an initial archaeological mission from 24 May to 13 June 2025, under the responsibility of researchers Yamen Sghaïer (INP), Chokri Touihri (INP), Maria (more…)

Today marks the conclusion of the seventh archaeological campaign of the Tunisian-Italian project (INP-Manouba-UNIBO) dedicated to the site of Thuburbo Maius (MAECI “Alibi Archaeologies and Old Excavations: Rediscovering Roman Tunisia”). Four years of activity, over four months of direct fieldwork, followed by laboratory activities in Tunisia and Italy, and more (more…)

A team of researchers and heritage curators from the National Heritage Institute (INP) is continuing the second part of the rescue excavation of the Chenini archaeological site in El Fouar, Kébli, which began on 7 May 2025 and will continue until 21 May 2025. The excavation revealed the presence of (more…)

Construction work on a regional hospital in Sbeiba, in the governorate of Kasserine, recently led to the chance discovery of burials dating from the ancient period. A rescue excavation carried out by the INP uncovered a large number of tombs, which were documented topographically, archaeologically and phytogrammetrically, and the various (more…)

As part of the efforts made by the National Heritage Institute to inventory the archaeological objects in its Archaeological reserves and museums, as well as those temporarily exported under the scientific partnership agreements between the National Heritage Institute and international European and American universities (America, Italy, France, Canada, etc.). …), (more…)