Category INP

Since November 2023, the National Heritage Institute, in partnership with the UNESCO Regional Office for the Maghreb countries and with the support of the municipality of Sousse and the National Crafts Office, has launched the implementation of a project financed by the Japanese Development Fund, which aims to integrate conservation (more…)

In November 2025, restoration work began on Borj El Ghazi Mustapha (Houmt Souk – Djerba). The restoration mainly concerns the north façade, which borders the coastline, the main façade, and other areas that pose a danger to visitors. Lime mortar is currently fermenting in a basin built for this purpose (more…)

As part of the scientific cooperation agreement between the National Heritage Institute, the Universities of Sfax and Aix-en-Provence-Marseille concerning the enhancement of the archaeological site of Thina in the governorate of Sfax, a series of scientific interventions and works were carried out between 1 and 18 July 2025, including: The (more…)

Within the framework of the agreement concluded between the National Heritage Institute and the General Direction of Bridges and Roads of the Ministry of Equipment and Housing concerning the project to fill the gaps in Regional Road 91 in Kasserine, the National Heritage Institute carried out preventive excavations and archaeological (more…)

Following the mission carried out in October 2024 by the Director General of the National Heritage Institute, Mr. Tarek Baccouche, to the Arab World Institute in Paris to study the situation of Tunisian archaeological and ethnographic artefacts that have been there since 1995 as part of the ‘Museum of Arab (more…)

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…)

Dans le cadre de la coopération tuniso-italienne entre l’Institut National du Patrimoine et le Parco Archeologico del Colosseo à Rome, un projet de restauration des mosaïques des demeures romaines d’El Jem (Thysdrus) a été initié en 2025. Celui-ci a impliqué une première intervention en avril et une seconde du 09 (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…)