Excavations and researches at Althiburos (INP and ISMA-CNR)

  • Massimo Botto CNR, Istituto di Studi sul Mediterraneo Antico (ISMA)
  • Nabil Kallala Université de Tunis et Institut National du Patrimoine (INP), Tunis
  • Sergio Ribichini Istituto per la Conservazione e Valorizzazione dei Beni Culturali (ICVBC-CNR), Roma
DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/caster/2605
Keywords: Althiburos, Tophet, Archaeological Research, Baal Hammon, Saturn

Abstract

The Tunisian National Heritage Institute and the Institute for the Studies on Ancient Mediterranean, of the Italian National Research Council, lead by several years archaeological research in el Médéïna (ancient Althiburos). Here we present the main aspects of the Tunisian-Italian cooperation and an assessment of the results achieved so far

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Published
2017-03-21
Issue
Vol 2 (2017)
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Conferences, seminars and workshop of the SAIC

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