Roman Colony of Africa in Hammamet in Tunisia

Bringing back to life a whole section of the lives of the inhabitants of this African province at the time when it was a Roman colony, such is the mission that the scientists who have been working on the Pupput necropolis since 1996 have set themselves. It was the construction of a tourist complex that brought to light this 2,000-year-old Roman cemetery, the largest ever discovered intact in Africa. Between the excavations of the graves and the visit of the neighboring Roman sites, Serge Viallet introduces us to the funeral rites of a population of modest means. The objects that accompany the tombs reveal the gestures and habits of this population; from this place of death emerges the knowledge of the living.