| Country |
Details |
Photo |
Description |
Year
Taken |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Mosaic of Diana, goddess of hunting.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Diana, goddess of hunting, riding a stag.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Geometric mosaic.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Mosaic resembling marble.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
 |
Large mosaic in excellent condition.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
 |
A wall of mosaics faeturing lions and bears.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Ostriches.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Boat scene.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Fragment of a wall mosaic.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
 |
A chariot scene from Acholla.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Mosaic of Daniel in the lion's den.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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A sea centaur carrying a nymph.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
Site / Event : Bardo Museum
|
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Mosaic of Perseus holding the Medusa's head while rescuing Andromeda.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Hanibal
|
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Hanibal is a green suburb of Tunis.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Hanibal
|
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The suburb is named after the Carthaginian general who invaded Rome with elephants.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Carthage is a UNESCO World heritage site.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Carthage was founded by Phonoecians from Tyre (modern Lebanon) in 814 BCE.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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View of Carthage from where the Phonoecians controlled sea trade until the Romans destroyed the city.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Carthage was destroyed by the Romans in 146 BC.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Phonoecian houses. Carthage was one of the greatest cities of the ancient world.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Bath house.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
 |
Tiling.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
 |
Phonoecian wall.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Phonoecian houses had underground cisterns and drainage.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Cistern.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
 |
Flooring.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
 |
The heart of the city.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Phonoecian houses.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
 |
Phonoecian house made of stone blocks.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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The Phonoecian city was buried by the Romans so is well preserved.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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A row of houses along a street.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Hanibal set off for Rome in the 2nd century BCE from this city.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Roman column.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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The Roman city is above the original Phonoecian city.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Drainage.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
|
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Roman statue.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
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The Roman forum on Byrsa Hill, the heart of the Phonoecian city.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
 |
The foundations of Byrsa Hill are 336m by 323m.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
 |
Ruins of Roman Carthage, destroyed by the Vandals in the 5th century.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
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View from the hill.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
 |
View of the ports of Carthage.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
 |
View of the suburb of Hanibal.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
 |
Shaded area.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Byrsa Hill
|
 |
View over Carthage with modern Tunis and the sea in the distance.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
The museum on Byrsa Hill, which was flattened by the Romans to build their city in 44 BCE.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Terracotta mask with paint remnants and a silver ring in its nose (6th century BCE).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
Phonoecian planning inscription on black limestone (3rd century BCE).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
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Terracotta Phonoecian votive incense burner with face of Demeter from Carthage.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
A 7th century BCE pyxis (cup).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
A baby bottle (3rd century BCE).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
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White marble urn for holding burnt bones (Roman, 2nd century).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
Lamps from Carthage. Left Phonoecian, centre Greek, right Roman.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
A 1st century glass Roman urn.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
Marble sculpture of a drunk Silenus and Maenad (Roman).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
6th century BCE terracotta figure from the shrine of Tophet.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
Three figurines made from glass. A monkey and two Egyptian gods (7th century BCE).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
Map of the Phonoecian city of Carthage showing Byrsa Hill and the circular harbour.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Tunis
District : Carthage
Site / Event : Museum
|
 |
Painting of the Romans building the Forum.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The Sidi Okba Mosque is better known as the Great Mosque.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
Stone gate marking the entrance to the mosque.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The enormous walls of the mosque are decorated with Roman columns salvaged from Carthage.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The Great Mosque dates from the 9th Century. It is the oldest mosque in North Africa.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The entrance.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mosque is a centre of Islamic scholarship.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The three level minaret dates from the 728.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The arched colonnade has Byzantine and Roman columns salvaged from Carthage and Sousse.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The colonnaded hall.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
Internal brickwork.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
Stone door with inscriptions.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The prayer hall has 414 Byzantine columns, all different.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Great Mosque
|
 |
The mihrab has tiles from Baghdad.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Jebd Gate is one of ther entrances to the medina (old city).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
The narrow streets of the medina.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Carved and tiled door with columns.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
Site / Event : Pasha's House
|
 |
Entrance to the house of the Pasha (Ottoman governor).
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
Site / Event : Pasha's House
|
 |
The Pasha's house has cedar and teak ceilings and dates from the 18th century.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Ornate balcony.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Arched narrow street in the old city.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
Site / Event : Mosque of Three Doors
|
 |
The Mosque of Three Doors (866) was founded by a holy man from Cordoba.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
Site / Event : Mosque of Three Doors
|
 |
Carvings above the doors of the mosque.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Street scene.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Carpet shop.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Men smoking shisha pipes.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Sweet shop.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
Shop selling metal items.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
 |
The interior of a Turkish coffee shop.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Ceramics.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Fresh bread.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Snack stall.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Ceiling from the home of an Ottoman general.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Narrow street.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
District : Medina
|
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Brick tower.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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The Zaouia of Sidi Sahab houses the tomb of a companion of Muhammad.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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Food stalls by the entrance.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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Coutryard with dome.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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Decorated courtyard.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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The shrine has many courtyards.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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Detail of tilework.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : Kairouan
Site / Event : Zaouia of Sidi Sahab
|
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Some of the couryards are decorated with tiles.
|
2004 |
| Tunisia |
City / Town : El Jem
|
 |
El Jem is the ancient Thysdrus, a Roman town famous for its olive oil.
|
2004 |
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