🇲🇷Mauritania

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost)

Medieval Ghana Empire (Wagadu) / Almoravid (7th–17th c; peak 10th–13th c) · Soninke (Wagadu) / Sanhaja Berber

12 ha stone citadel identified as Ghana Empire's gold entrepôt Awdaghust with Tagant artisan quarters and central mosque.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Megalith

El Ghaddar — Old Awkar Stone Cairn Fields Mauretania

Neolithic to Iron (3500 BCE–800 CE tumuli sequence) · Saharan Neolithic to Berber/Garamantian fringe

Awkar surveyed by Vernet & Naffé 1990s, tumuli chain 1000.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art

Amazmaz

Amazmaz is an isolated elevation with steep slopes in the western part of the Adrar plateau in Mauritania, 400 km northeast of the capital Nouakchott.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city

Ksar el Barka

Ksar el Barka (Arabic: قصر البركة, Fula: Laaci-Wendu) is a ruined town in Mauritania.

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Archaeological wonder

Banc d'Arguin National Park

The Banc d'Arguin National Park (Arabic: حوض أركين, romanized: Ḥawḍ ʾArkīn, French: Parc national du Banc d'Arguin) of Bay of Arguin lies in Western Africa on the west coast of Mauritania between…

🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art

Agrour Amogjar

The Agrour Amogjar is a 690 m high peak near the Amogjar Pass, in the Adrar plateau of central Mauritania. Its small natural shelters house a rich collection of rock paintings in a damaged state.