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Kerkouane - Only Intact Phoenician City

Kelibia, Tunisia

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"The only Phoenician-Punic city to survive Roman conquest (abandoned ~250 BC, never rebuilt), with 4th–3rd century BC houses, bathrooms, and Tyrian purple dye workshops intact since UNESCO 1985."

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    Kerkouane - Only Intact Phoenician City

    UNESCO World Heritage Site and the ONLY Phoenician-Punic city that was never rebuilt by the Romans. Abandoned during the First Punic War (~250 BC), its streets, houses, shops, and temples remain exactly as the Carthaginians left them. Remarkably, almost every house has an elaborate bathroom with distinctive 'shoe-shaped' red concrete bathtubs. The nearby necropolis contains intact Punic tombs.

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