🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works
Foggaras of the Touat (Adrar–Reggane Foggaras)
Sanhaja Berber to Marinid · Touat Zenete–Sanhaja oasis
Touat Adrar: 84 foggaras 140 km Africa's densest Sahara foggara corridor 27.87N.
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🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works
Sanhaja Berber to Marinid · Touat Zenete–Sanhaja oasis
Touat Adrar: 84 foggaras 140 km Africa's densest Sahara foggara corridor 27.87N.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works
Almoravid to Saadian · Zenete Berber oases (Gourara)
Gourara Timimoun: 42 foggaras 68 km gallery 12th c. irrigating 1,200 ha Sahara oasis 29.26N.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Epipaleolithic to Late Pastoral (c.8000 BCE–1000 CE; major painting phases Round Head 6000 BCE–5000 BCE, Pastoral 4500–2000 BCE) · Kel Tamasheq predecessor hunter-gatherer / Pastoral Neolithic / Garamantes
72,000 km² sandstone plateau with one of world's largest rock art concentrations: 15,000 engravings and paintings spanning 6000 BCE–first centuries CE – Bubalus, Round Head (10,000–6000 BCE,…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Neolithic to Protohistoric (Bubalus → Bovid pastoral → Libyco-Berber) · Capsian Neolithic pastoralists then Garamantian–Libyco-Berber
Ouled Nail Atlas 1162 ram-engravings 7000–3000 BCE, Bubalus ram 1.2 m with headdress, CapSian cattle pastoral transition.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (75-647 CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Legionary Theveste with arch.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Caesarea Iol — Harbour North Breakwater (Cherchell) in Tipaza, Cherchell, Caesarea Iol, Algeria is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged ci…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Submerged site
Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) · Bronze–Iron Age maritime
Hippo Regius — Harbour North Mole (Annaba, Algeria) in Annaba, Hippo Regius, Algeria is a Bronze Age to Classical (2000 BCE–500 CE) submerged city attribut…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (6th c BCE–7th c CE; peak 3rd c BCE–2nd c CE) · Massaesylian Numidian / Punic / Roman
Numidian royal capital Siga (Takembrit) of Syphax at the Tafna mouth.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman Severan (198–238 CE) · Roman
Castellum Dimmidi (Messaad) is Rome's southernmost Algerian outpost, 350 km south of Algiers into true Sahara, a Severan isolated vexillation fort 40×40 m with corner bastions built 198 CE by Legio…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Hillfort
Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) · Nazca
Carr Cliff Hillfort in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Nazca (100 BCE–800 CE) hillfort attributed to Nazca culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient village
Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) · Jōmon
Syke-Strath Ancient Village in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Jōmon (14000–300 BCE) ancient village attributed to Jōmon culture.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient port
Numidian to Late Antique (3rd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian (Masaesyli) / Roman (Mauretania)
Syphax's harbour with 200 m submerged rubble mole and purple middens.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Roman to Byzantine (104 CE–7th c. CE) · Roman
Trajanic desert camp 130×80 m anchoring Fossatum Negrine segment.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Roman to Byzantine (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Limes military colony at Biskra oasis with camp and Triton mosaic.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (2nd c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Numidian / Roman
Customs station famed for 202 CE Zarai Tariff (longest Latin customs law).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works
Islamic Berber (900–1050 CE) Tidikelt Zenata · Zenata Berber Tidikelt (Algerian Sahara)
Tidikelt foggara 3.8 km 84 shafts 8–14 m with 12-notch peigne comb sharing 18 ha In Salah oasis 1050 CE.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Hydraulic works
Medieval Zenata Berber to early modern (1100–1600 CE) · Zenata Berber / Touat oases
Tit village foggaras (320 m) in Tidikelt–Touat transition: 8 foggaras totaling 11.2 km with 135 shafts (6–12 m) tapping Continental Intercalaire sandstone aquifer at In Salah depression.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian / Roman (Berber stronghold to late antique) · Numidian / Roman
Cliff-hanging Berber-Roman 'mini Delphi' on Guelaa plateau with stepped streets, bazina tombs and aqueducts.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician / Roman / Early Christian · Phoenician / Roman / Christian
Phoenician-Roman-Christian cape town with Great 7-aisle basilica (largest in Africa) and St Salsa martyrion.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Phoenician to Arab (12th c. BCE – 7th c. CE; Augustinian 354–430 peak) · Phoenician / Numidian / Roman
Augustine coastal capital — Numidian-Roman 60 ha city whose Seybouse estuary moles now 1–3 m offshore.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Tumulus
Late Numidian–Mauretanian (25 BCE–23 CE) · Berber Mauretanian / Hellenistic Roman
Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania (Kbour er Roumia) is the 32 m high Numidian–Mauretanian royal tomb 32 km W of Algiers on Sahel ridge 261 m with 60 columns (Ionic below, Doric above) and 4 false doors.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Marinid (1299–1307 CE) · Berber Marinid / Zayyanid
Mansourah is the 1299–1307 Marinid siege-camp turned fortified city 4 km W of Tlemcen, built by Sultan Abu Yaqub to blockade Zayyanid Tlemcen for 8-year siege (longest medieval siege in Maghreb).
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Ottoman (3rd c. BCE–present; Roman peak 1st–4th c. CE) · Numidian / Carthaginian / Roman / Byzantine / Islamic
Cirta (modern Constantine, Qusanṭīnah) is the Tunisian Tell's most dramatic city, perched on a limestone mesa girded by the 300-m-deep Rhumel gorge with four bridges.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Rock art
Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) · Palaeolithic to Iron Age
Tassili n'Ajjer — Tin Merine North Gallery in Illizi, Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Upper Palaeolithic to Iron Age (30000 BCE–500 CE) rock art attributed t…
