Sousse Archaeological Museum - Sousse: Working hours, Activities, Visitor reviews
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Information about Sousse Archaeological Museum
The Archaeological Museum of Sousse is located in the Kasbah of the city of Sousse. The museum was founded in 1951 and closed for a certain period and then reopened its doors to the public in 2012 after rearranging the collections and renovating the edifice. It contains the second largest collection of mosaics in the world after the Bardo National Museum in Tunis. Some of the jars displayed in the Punic Hall date to the early 7th century BC. Artifacts dating back to the period between antiquity and the second century BC were discovered by the French archaeologist Pierre Sentas in the soil of Sousse and in the Baal Hamon Protectorate. The museum also includes some local pottery from Greece, which was found inside the Punic tombs in the Kasbah, along with oil lamps and some marble tablets and inscriptions written in Greek and Latin. The location of the discovery according to him.
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History Museums
Archeological Museums
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