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Multi-periodSite Name: Carthage Byrsa Alternative Name: Qart Hadasht
Country: Tunisia Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Tunis  Nearest Village: Carthage
Latitude: 36.853580N  Longitude: 10.324990E
Condition:
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4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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-1Completely destroyed
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4 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
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Carthage Byrsa
Carthage Byrsa submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Punic Houses on the tallest hill in Carthage. There are supposed to be a few tombs nearby. The Carthage Archeological sites are spread out among a half dozen different locations in a luxury villa subburb of modern day Tunis. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Ancient Village or Settlement in Tunisia.
The site of ancient Carthage is spread over a half dozen sites in what is now a thriving district of luxury villas in a suburb of Tunis.

This site on top of a hill crowned with a French colonial cathedral has several Punic houses and is also supposed to have a few Punic tombs.
A large statue of Apollo is preserved in the basement of the cathedral, which suggests there might have been a Roman temple there in the past.
The Ancient Punic Port is well visible from here.
Qart Hadasht was the Punic name before the Romans latinized it. Byrsa is a coruption of Barsat, meaning Stronghold in Phoenician. 55 Meters Altitude

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Carthage Byrsa
Carthage Byrsa submitted by AlexHunger : Ancient Punic Houses on the tallest hill in Carthage. There are supposed to be some Punic graves nearby. The Ancient Carthage Archeological sites are spread out among a half dozen different locations in a luxury villa subburb of modern day Tunis (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carthage Byrsa
Carthage Byrsa submitted by durhamnature : Tombs in Byrsa, from "Les Tombeaux Punic" via archive.org Site in Tunisia (Vote or comment on this photo)

Carthage Byrsa
Carthage Byrsa submitted by AlexHunger : Roman remains on the tallest Carthage Hill, built over ancient Punic houses. There was probably a temple of Apollo beneath the recent but now disused French catholic cathedral, as a statue was found in the basement. The ancient Carthage Archeological sites are spread out among a half dozen different locations in a luxury villa subburb of modern day Tunis (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Science and art bring young Carthaginian 'back to life' by bat400 on Sunday, 21 November 2010
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Clad in a white linen tunic, sandals in the ancient Carthaginian style and a pendant and beads like those found with his remains, 2,500-year-old "Ariche" has virtually come back to life on the sacred hill of Byrsa where he was born.

The outcome of scientific cooperation between France and Tunisia, the young man has been remodelled and returned to his native soil in historical Carthage, a city state that lasted from 814 B.C. to 146 B.C. He will be given a place of honour in the museum of modern-day Carthage, north of Tunis.

"The distance that separates the centuries has been erased, the bones are given flesh and the eyes light up anew in a young man who lived right here six centuries before our own era," French ambassador Pierre Menat said at the opening of the exhibition last week.

The modern history of the youth of Byrsa began in 1994 with the fortuitous discovery of a sepulchre on the southern flank of the hill, which is one of the most famous sites of antique Carthage. A joint Franco-Tunisian team moved in to excavate. An anthropological study of the skeleton showed that the man died between the age of 19 and 24, had a pretty robust physique and was 1.7 metres (five feet six inches) tall, according to a description by Jean Paul Morel, director of the French archaeological team at Carthage Byrsa.

The man from Byrsa has been rebaptised Ariche -- meaning the desired man -- at the initiative of Culture Minister Abderraouf Basti, who inaugurated the exhibition.
Ariche has regained an almost living human appearance very close in physiognomy to a Carthaginian of the 6th century B.C. after a dermoplastic reconstruction undertaken in Paris by Elisabeth Daynes, a sculptor specialising in hyper-realistic reconstructions.

"He comes back to us thanks to scientific rigour, notably that of paleo-anthropology and forensic medicine, but also the magic of art, that of Elisabeth Daynes, who knows how to bring many faces back from the distant past," Sebai said.

Dermoplastic reconstruction is based on a scientific technique that enables experts to restore the features of an individual with 95 percent accuracy, though some aspects, such as the colour of the eyes and the hair remain partially subjective, she added.

"We can clearly see that this exceptional witness to Carthage in the Punic era is a Mediterranean man, he has all the characteristics," noted Sihem Roudesli, a paleo-anthropologist at the Tunisian National Heritage Institute.

Repatriated on September 24, Ariche will be on show at Byrsa until the end of March 2011 when he will travel to Lebanon, the land of the Phoenicians who founded Carthage, for an exhibition at the American University of Beirut.

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