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Sheep, goats, and cattle measured wealth. [74] From physical evidence unearthed in Tunisia archaeologists present the Berbers as already "farmers with a strong pastoral element in their economy and fairly elaborate cemeteries", well over a thousand years before the Phoenicians arrived to found Carthage .
The American Tunis or Tunis is an endangered American breed of fat-tailed sheep. It derives from Tunisian Barbarin sheep imported to the United States from Tunisia in 1799. [2] It is raised primarily for meat. [2]
Shepherd with Barbarin sheep near Bou Achar At the oasis of Ksar Ghilane in southern Tunisia. The Tunisian Barbarin is a Tunisian breed of fat-tailed sheep.It is distributed throughout Tunisia, [3]: 46 and on both sides of the Tunisian border with Algeria, on the Algerian side particularly in the area of Oued Souf.
France still had the issue of Italian influence (related to the huge colony of Tunisian Italians emigrated to Tunisia [361]) and thus decided to find an excuse for a pre-emptive strike. In the spring of 1881, the French army occupied Tunisia, claiming that Tunisian troops had crossed the border to Algeria, France's primary colony in Northern ...
Mosaic of confronted horses from the House of Sorothus on an 1880s publication. The horse mosaic measures around 2 m (1.89 m by 1.80 m [69]) and the tesserae are very small, [69] which means that the figurative details are very precise. An ivy frame surrounds the painting [69] which features four horses "facing each other two by two". Posts and ...
This now famous tablet, displayed in the museum, is Christian representation of the Good Shepherd theme, illustrating Jesus self-description in the Gospel of John (I am the good shepherd, who is willing to die for the sheep) [3] as well as illustrating the parabole of the lost sheep comparing God seeking lost humans as a sheppherd leaving his ...
Moroccan rider on his Barb horse. These horses come from crosses between the Barb, notably Moroccan, and the Arabian. The dendrogram and factorial correspondence analysis between the Barb and the Tunisian Arab-Barb show an overlap in the genetic makeup of the analyzed individuals, confirming a common genetic basis.
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