Kategorie

Cultural

Land

Tunisia

Einschreibungsjahr

1985

Kriterien

(iii)

UNESCO-ID

332

Beschreibung

This Phoenician city was probably abandoned during the First Punic War (c. 250 B.C.) and as a result was not rebuilt by the Romans. The remains constitute the only example of a Phoenicio-Punic city to have survived. The houses were built to a standard plan in accordance with a sophisticated notion of town planning.