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Carthage: UNESCO and other 20th Century Excavations

Can you name the Carthage: UNESCO and other 20th Century Excavations?

By Herodotus
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When did Tunisia gain independence?
Who was ousted by Ben Ali?
When did this happen?
Whose husband was director of the Carthage National Museum?
Which large hotel was constructed on the Byrsa?
How many archaeological missions were undertaken by the UNESCO campaign?
How many countries took part?
What does CEDAC stand for?
Who did foreign excavators have to provide infrastructure for?
Who says this is the first time we see sophisticated archaeological work?
What is the Falbe number of the underground chamber?
Who excavated it?
What did Falbe identify it as?
When did they publish a preliminary report?
What did they postulate it was?
What is the Falbe number of the Martyrium?
Who excavated it?
Who previously excavated there?
Which goddesses where hypothesised by some scholars?
What did Davis identify it as?
Who excavated the House of the Greek Charioteers?
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Who comments on the unusual mosaics?
What statue was recovered from a cistern in the house?
What is the Falbe number of a seaside villa?
Who excavated there?
Who originally excavated there?
Who took the mosaics?
Who were buried there?
Who excavated the circular harbour?
What did the Germans find?
What is often hailed as the greatest discovery of the project?
When did Carthage become a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Between which years did thefts from museums increase?
Where was a statue of Ganymede stolen from in 2015?
What was constructed next to the Odeon in the early 2000s?
Who is disparaging of UNESCO's efforts?
Who is the expert on the amphitheatre?
How many tiers did El-Idrisi say the amphitheatre was?
How many surviving arches were there?
What period does the amphitheatre belong to?
What did the White Fathers construct in the amphitheatre?
Who excavated the theatre?
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When did he do this?
When did the first modern concert take place there?
What was it called?
Who addressed British troops there in 1943?
What was held in the theatre in the 1960s?
When is the terminus ante quem for the theatre?
What did the Romans find when constructing the theatre?
Where was the only other theatre in North Africa entirely faced with marble?
The statues of which gods were found during the excavations?
Which god is the postulated third member of this divine trio?
In the Severan period what games was Carthage allowed to host?
Which secondary scholar was interested in suburban Carthage?
When did excavations at the Villa of Scorpianus start?
When did the villa date to?
What dates it?
Where was the bath's hypocaust system imported from?
How many individuals were recovered from the site?
What was found in the furnace?
What is the name of the street grid map?
Which bath building is built across the UN street grid?
What is its cistern called?
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