Uthina / Oudna

Uthina lies now at 25 km south-west of the Tunisian capital. Little is known about pre-Roman Uthina. As an Augustan colony, precociously romanised, the city reached an apex under the reigns of the Antonines and the Severans. Its decline was as untimely in spite of a short renaissance in the fourth century. Abandoned in the fifth century, Uthina was talked about no more...
Submitted to a thorough programme of excavations, the site has already revealed many important monuments such as the theatre, amphitheatre, aqueduct, villas, thermes, so many monuments which show the importance of a wealthy city founded in a fertile wheat-soil...