🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Hippo Diarrhytus (Bizerte)
Phoenician to Late Antique (8th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Phoenician-Roman port under modern Bizerte with lagoon quay.
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🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician to Late Antique (8th c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Phoenician-Roman port under modern Bizerte with lagoon quay.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Buried city
Phoenician to Arab (1101 BCE – 7th c. CE; Roman capital 146–46 BCE) · Phoenician / Carthaginian / Roman
1124 BCE Tyrian harbour older than Carthage — two cothons now 12 km inland under Medjerda alluvium, textbook delta progradation.
🇹🇳 Tunisia · Ancient city
Phoenician / Punic / Roman / Late Antique · Phoenician / Roman
Phoenician port 1101 BCE now 12 km inland due to siltation; Roman capital of Africa with waterfall mosaic house.