Located on a side street off the main drag Calle Comoens, the Museo de la Basílica Tardorromana is built underground around the remains of a late Roman-era Christian basilica dating from the late 4th or early 5th century CE, discovered in 1987 during street work — a rare surviving trace of early Christianity in this corner of North Africa. But the exhibits here sweep from prehistory (including references to nearby caves dated some 70,000 years old, and Neolithic house remains found near the cathedral dating to around 7000 BCE), through the Phoenician-Punic period, the Roman era (with a strong focus on the region's garum/fish-salting industry, plus a marble Roman sarcophagus), and into the medieval period, ending with the Portuguese conquest of 1415. 

Read more in my post Our Recent Weekend in Ceuta, the Spanish City in North Africa.

 
David Paul Appell