[1] It is located in a hill inside the city of Cagliari, Sardinia called Tuvixeddu (meaning "little cavity" in Sardinian).

[1] Between the 6th and 3rd centuries BC the Carthaginians chose this hill to bury their dead: these burials were reached through a well dug into the limestone rock (from two to eleven meters deep), a small opening introduced to the burial chamber.

The burial chambers were beautifully decorated; there were found amphorae and ampoules for the essences.

On the slopes of the Tuvixeddu hill there is a Roman necropolis, which overlooked the road at the exit of the city.

A 2017 Ancient DNA study by Claudia Viganó et al. found that a man buried ~2000 years ago in the necropolis of Tuvixeddu carried the cod39 mutation that cause Beta thalassemia.