The Chemtou Museum is an

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located in

Chemtou Chemtou or Chimtou was an ancient Roman-Berber town in northwestern Tunisia, located 20 km from the city of Jendouba near the Algerian frontier. It was known as Simitthu (or Simitthus in Roman period) in antiquity. History Chemtou was found ...

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. The

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was designed by archaeologists with the Tunisian National Heritage Institute and the

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with offices located in

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. It has the distinction of being located in the area of the old

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city of Simmithu, near the entrepot's

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quarry in what was the ancient Berber kingdom of

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Marble quarries

Funerary steles in Archaeological Museum of Chemtou

A series of Roman mill races to horizontal

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s have also been discovered. This indicates that

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, part of the activities at the site had been mechanised.

References

* Aïcha Ben Abed, Carthage. Capitale de l'Africa, Connaissance des arts, hors-série Carthage n°69, 1995, p. 28.

External links

chimtou.com
museum's official website

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Marble quarries

See also

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