Archive Thursday April 9th, 2026

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…)

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…)

The exhibition ‘Magna Mater, between Zama and Rome’ opens at the Bardo National Museum in Tunis and will be open to the public from 21 January to 21 July 2026. It presents around thirty archaeological pieces (sculptures, fragments, terracotta) from the site of Zama Regia, illustrating ancient cults and cultural (more…)