Kerkouane Museum

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Museum, ticket office, entrance area, parking, and access road to the ruins of an ancient walled town.
Arabic: كركوان‎
Also spelled Kerkouane, from French.
The ruins are the remains of a town, apparently destroyed by a tsunami, at an unknown point of time before the first Punic wars. By locals it is considered to have been a Punic town, and recently dubbed "Kerkwèn", after the Maghrebi Arabic common name of the area in its surroundings. The site including the city centre ruins and its Necropolis, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was a looting site until deemed empty, and in the final years of the Ben Ali regime, there was installed a road access, a parking lot, and a ticket office and a small museum.
NOTE: It is perhaps the only archaeological site in Tunisia where you will NOT be hawked to buy small-sized artefacts, as there may be nothing left to sell from the site.