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The archaeological excavation conducted in Ghizène (northeast of the island of Jerba) between December 2008 and January 2009 unveiled a stratigraphy that runs, chronologically speaking, from the 6th century BC to the 1st century AD. In addition to the fishing resources concealed at the site, which can be inferred from the huts and various remains of fishermen discovered there, Ghizène seems to have been a Punic trading port – probably of Phoenician origin – very open to the Mediterranean trade. Thus we can explain the presence, in this island settlement, of ceramics imported from several sites around the Mediterranean, including Carthage, Athens, Corinth, Sicily, Southern Italy, Etruria, Malta, and even the Phoenician Levant