The mosaics of the Bardo National Museum

PUNIC WATCH: Postcard from Tunis: Inside the world's largest mosaic museum. Tunisia’s Bardo National Museum has a Roman mosaic collection that covers 5,000 square metres (Ghaya Ben Mbarek, The National).

“The Punic [section] reflects both the legacy of the native Tunisian Nubians and the Phoencians who came and established Carthage later. This laid the ground for what we call now the Punic civilisation,” Mr Khalloufi told The National.

After its reopening in September, the Bardo Museum introduced a number of new areas such as the Althiburos room, which used to be the music room for Moncef Bey.

The room showcases a series of mosaics, including two that document the daily lives of the Punic people, showing ships and fishing techniques from Althiburos in the 4th century and the complete representation of a banquet in Carthage, also from the 4th century.

Cross-file under Decorative Art.

The Bardo Museum was subjected to a terrorist attack in 2015, but it reopened shortly afterwards.

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