On 17 January 2012, the Tunisian government proposed it be included in a future classification of the royal mausoleums of Numidia and Mauretania and other pre-Islamic funerary monuments.

In 1842, Thomas Reade, the British consul in Tunis, seriously damaged the monument in the process of removing the royal inscription which decorated it.

The current state of monument is the result of a reconstruction of the pieces strewn through the surrounding area, carried out with Tunisian support by the French archaeologist Louis Poinssot [fr] between 1908 and 1910.

On the north face of the podium, the first of the three levels, an opening covered by a slab leads to the funerary chamber.

According to recent studies, the names mentioned on the surviving inscription are merely the monument's builders: the architect and the various head artisans.