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🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Almoravid to modern (11th c–20th c; present fabric 17th–19th c) · Berber (Haratine) / Almoravid / Saadi
Fortified earthen ksar on Trans-Saharan caravan road with pisé towers, agadir granary and geometric clay façades.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Middle Paleolithic to Epipalaeolithic (85,000–8,000 BP; cemetery 13,000 BCE) · Aterian / Iberomaurusian
Iberomaurusian cemetery cave Taforalt with oldest African funerary bundle and Natufian-linked DNA.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Archaeological wonder
Phoenician to Late Antique (7th c BCE–5th c CE; peak 7th–6th c BCE) · Phoenician / Mauretanian / Portuguese
Tiny purple island with earliest Atlantic Phoenician 7th c BCE outpost for murex dye – 'Tyr's Atlantic anchor'.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Medieval Amazigh to Modern (13th–20th c CE) · Amazigh (Berber) Tashelhit
Anti-Atlas Amazigh fortified granary (igoudar) citadel Afla Ighir with 12 tower-granaries.
🇲🇦 Morocco · Ancient village
Roman (1st–5th c. CE; peak 2nd–4th c. CE) · Roman (Mauretanian)
Cotta (Cap Spartel) is Mauretania Tingitana's largest Roman garum factory, 1st–5th c. CE, 8 km west of Tangier on Atlantic.
