Original Roman Road

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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 turbine mill .