Dougga

Here I am at Dougga once again. It sure is a great site!

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We first drove up to the western entrance but decided to go find some food before visiting the site. Also, the walk was a bit further from this entrance. Good views though.

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At the hotel that we ate at they had a tasteful display of looted Roman antiquities on display.

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Attack of the sheep! The herders were moving them from the olive groves through the ruins to pastures on the other side.

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One of the many cisterns on the site.

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Some other temples and ruins that I hadn’t gotten to the last time I was at the site.

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The biggest cistern complex. It’s used as storage now.

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The leftovers from excavation.  Used wheelbarrows.

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The circus. It’s the only flat piece of land within several kilometers of Dougga. It appears that the Romans flattened out the top of the hill to make a spot for the circus.

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An odd marker cairn covered in Latin.

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People still live in and around the ruins.

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Early Christian sarcophagi unearthed and stacked up like cord wood during initial excavations.

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Early Christian crypt.

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A parting shot of the theater.

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