It is in Salakta that the mosaics "Lion" (with huge proportions, and which is displayed in the Bardo National Museum) was found.

During the Second World War, both the French Army and the German Afrika Korps maintained a military base here.

One of the main mosaics of the Bardo National Museum, representing an African lion, was discovered in Salakta in 1958.

The museum shows excavation finds from the surrounding area, in particular terracotta as well as a large mosaic of a Berberlöwen.

The population of Salakta developed not least due to the tourism and attractiveness of the beaches of few hundred people to several thousand today.

Sullectum was the seat of a bishopric during the Roman Empire[5] but this moved to near modern Mahdia in the Middle Ages.