Inscribed :1997 Criteria: C (ii) (iii)

Justification for Inscription:
Report of the 21st Session of the Committee

Brief description:
Before the Roman annexation of Numidia, the town of Thugga, built on an elevated site overlooking a fertile plain, was the capital of an important Libyco-Punic state. It flourished under Roman and Byzantine rule, but declined in the Islamic period. The ruins visible today bear impressive witness to the resources of a small Roman town on the edges of the Empire.