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The Antonine Baths of Carthage are the largest Roman bath complex ever built on African soil. Of the original structures, only a few remnants of the ground floor—consisting of service areas located near the Carthaginian waterfront—remain. In fact, the site served as a stone quarry for centuries to build numerous monuments, both in Tunis and in many cities across the northern Mediterranean basin, such as Pisa; its proximity to the shore exacerbated the looting. The ruins extend over a length of more than 200 meters along the shoreline. The anastylosis of a column from the frigidarium by a Tunisian archaeological mission in 1985, as part of the international campaign led by UNESCO (1972–1992), gives a sense of the site’s magnificence at the height of the Roman city’s glory; the lost vaults rose to a height of over 29 meters—roughly the height of an eight-story building.

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