THE PUNIC NECROPOLIS

Go to the end of Cape Africa, after the Punic port. These funerary remains, a series of tombs cut into the rock, date from a period ranging from the^fifth to the second century BC. Archaeologists have provided astonishing and significant figures, because close to those of the Punic necropolis of Carthage. They show the importance of this necropolis and its implication on the Punic settlement in the region. These tombs, which almost touch the sea, represent only a part of a necropolis that extends over a larger part of the peninsula.