🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Lambaesis (Lambèse)
Roman (Flavian to Late antique; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber
Headquarters of Legio III Augusta 81–238 CE with Praetorium aedicula, amphitheatre and 3,000+ Latin inscriptions.
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111 places in the atlas, 11 of them inscribed as UNESCO World Heritage.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman (Flavian to Late antique; peak 2nd–3rd c) · Roman / Berber
Headquarters of Legio III Augusta 81–238 CE with Praetorium aedicula, amphitheatre and 3,000+ Latin inscriptions.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (5th c BCE-11th c CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Plateau colony Madauros.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (4th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Christian
Hercules city Thibilis.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Early Holocene to Camel Period · Pastoral / Kel Essuf / Tuareg
Arch sanctuary Tin Merzouga bridging Acacus pastoral art to Tassili chariots.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Khemis Miliana (Arabic: خميس مليانة) is a town in northern Algeria of around 210,000 inhabitants. It is a university town located 120 kilometers west of Algiers.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (27 BCE–7th c. CE; peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Tubusuctu (Tiklat) on the Soummam River was Augustus' veteran colony for Legio? Set on fertile Soummam plain beneath Djurdjura, with orthogonal Hippodamian plan 1,000×400 m. Remains: punic?
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Early Holocene to 1st millennium CE (10,000 BCE–500 CE) · Saharan hunter-pastoralist (Capsian, Pastoral Neolithic)
Tassili n'Ajjer Tin Merzouga – Saharan sandstone forest with 15,000+ paintings/engravings (10,000 BCE–500 CE) in the Tin Merzouga erg-edge sector: Round Head period giant pastoral figures (Jabbaren),…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician / Numidian / Roman · Mauretanian / Roman
Splendid royal capital of Juba II and Cleopatra Selene (25 BCE) then capital of Mauretania Caesariensis, with harbour, great theatre, amphitheatre and museums of Greek copies.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Punic (6th c BCE) – Roman – Christian (5th c CE) · Punic / Mauretanian / Roman
Coastal UNESCO port with Punic necropolis (6th c BCE tophet), Roman forum, theatre, and two Christian basilicas (Salsa martyr shrine) on promontory with offshore islet. Numidian–Ma...
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian / Roman · Romano-Berber
High-plateau Roman university town famed as birthplace of Apuleius (Golden Ass) and Augustine's school.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Auzia was a Roman-Berber colonia in present-day Sour El-Ghozlane, Algeria. The area was located around 150 km south-east of Algiers, in the ancient province of Mauretania Caesariensis.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Miliana (Arabic: مليانة) is an Algerian commune in the Aïn Defla province, serving as the capital of Miliana district approximately 114 kilometres (71 mi) southwest of the Algerian capital, Algiers.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Late Antique (3rd c BCE-7th c CE; industrial peak 1st-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman
Pottery Sigus.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (122-431 CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Roman military
Plateau fort Rapidum.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Berber / Roman / Byzantine · Roman / Berber
Veteran colony of Legio III Augusta controlling Hauts Plateaux–Aurès corridor. Tetrapylon Arch of Caracalla (214 CE), amphitheatre, basilica of St Crispina (76 m) with catacombs, Byzantine walls with…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Aïn Turk (Arabic: عين ترك) nearby Bouira (Algeria) is a commune in Bouïra Province, Algeria. It is about 100 km from Algiers.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Tuareg Amazighs
mountain range in southeastern Algeria
