Abu Kammash is a small Berber village by the sea, located about 25 km from the Tunisian border. A low reef runs parallel to the shore for about two miles enclosing a beautiful fishing harbour and a small jetty with blue-painted fishing boats moored on both sides. The fist part of the jetty is built of rocks and stones. This small harbour does not look old and one is left to presume that the ancient anchorage has been claimed by the sea waiting to be discovered by future underwater archaeology. Indeed this has been already indicated by the recent discovery of a buried city and cemetery by the coast of Abu-Kammash. The village was originally inhabited by a few Berber families from Zuwarah who used it as a fishing village and as a crossing point to the peninsula of Farwah.
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According to At-Tijani’s Travels in North Africa, Abu Kammash once was part of Zuwarah and was inhabited by tribes from Zuwarah. A recent archaeological discovery of an ancient city and a cemetery will shed more light on it’s early history once it has been properly studied. The city was discovered by chance while workers were digging to install water pipes during the start of the new millennia (around 2001). The site extends a few kilometres along the coast and stretches in both directions: north beneath the sea, and south across the coastal road. The excavated parts have so far yielded funerary chambers with several group graves of cremated bodies whose bones were preserved in jars. Although the city appears to be of Roman character excavations showed an earlier Phoenician, Berber or Punic layer beneath the city. The practice of building new buildings on top of earlier and much older ones was very common in the ancient world.
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