Antiquities Exhibits

The Villa della Pisanella was excavated by landowners beginning in 1876.  In 1894 excavations brought to light a villa rustica covering 1000 sqm with clearly defined residential sector and farm buildings with baths, warehouses for the manufacture and storage of wine and oil. Everything was still in place and arrangement of the objects were exactly as they would normally have been: furnishings, bronze bathtubs decorated with masks in the shape of lion heads seemed to be ready for use. In a large chest there were fifty keys and silver tableware; in the kitchen the skeleton of a dog on a chain; in the stable the bones of several tethered horses, one of which had managed to wriggle out and escape. In the pressing-room (torcularium) the first three human skeletons came to light, including that of a woman, probably the mistress of the house, who wore splendid gold earrings with topaz jewels.  In 1895 on the floor of the wine cellar a dead man was found in the midst of the so-calle...

Phoenician, Roman, and Byzantine cultural remains at the archaeological site of Tipasa, Algeria. Among honeyed beaches, shady pine trees, and gently rolling hills, the sweeping turquoise sea serves as the backdrop for a layered history of golden ruins overlooking the coastal cliff.  Colonized several times over between the 6th century BC and the 6th century AD, Tipasa originated as a trading center for the Phoenicians of Carthage.  The site features a comprehensive Punic necropolis, ancient toilets, another theater, and a Christian religious complex fitted with thermal baths, basilicas, and tombs.  The most notable structure is the nearby royal mausoleum, Kbor er Roumia, which is the funerary monument of Berber King Juba II and Queen Cleopatra Selene II (Cleopatra and Marc Antony’s only daughter). Ancient remains of the tomb of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene (Cleopatra VII and Marc Antony's daughter) near Tipasa, Algeria.  Image courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. ...