Africa (Roman province)
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Africa was a Roman province on the northern coast of the continent of Africa. It was established in 146 BC, following the Roman Republic's conquest of Carthage in the Third Punic War. It roughly compr
The amphitheatre of Thysdrus (modern El Djem)
Roman as of Hadrian, 136 AD. An allegory of Africa wearing an elephant headdress is depicted on the reverse.
Juba II, king of Mauretania
Triumph of Poseidon and Amphitrite showing the couple in procession, detail of a vast mosaic from Cirta, Roman Africa (c. 315–325 AD, now at the Louvre)
The Praetorian Prefecture of Africa was an administrative division of the Byzantine Empire in the Maghreb. With its seat at Carthage, it was established after the reconquest of northwestern Africa fro
Africa, with the provinces of Byzacena, Zeugitana and Numidia.
![The famous Lady of Carthage [fr] mosaic, possibly a portrait of Theodora, one of the major surviving pieces of Byzantine art in modern Tunisia](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Dame_Carthage%28MNC%29.jpg/500px-Dame_Carthage%28MNC%29.jpg)
The famous Lady of Carthage [fr] mosaic, possibly a portrait of Theodora, one of the major surviving pieces of Byzantine art in modern Tunisia
Carte Tunisie 1844