original Roman road

To the left as you exit the museum is a small section of original Roman road used to transport marble down to the river. Excavations of the forum, a few hundred metres to the west, have revealed that it was built on the foundations of a Numid­ian temple. The quarries, three in all, are in the lit­tie hills north of the museum. Chemtou marble ranges in colour from dark red to green but the most highly prized hue was golden yellow. A path leads up to the top of the east­ernmost hill, where you can see the ruins of a Numidian temple, later converted into a temple to Saturn by the Romans and then a Byzantine church. A few kilometres south there's a Roman bridge over Oued Medjerda, just down­stream from the modern bridge. Situated further along from the bridge are the ruins of a turb...Read More