🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Madauros (Mdaourouch)
Numidian to Byzantine (5th c BCE-11th c CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Plateau colony Madauros.
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🇩🇿 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
Roman to Byzantine (75-647 CE; peak 2nd-4th c CE) · Roman / Byzantine
Legionary Theveste with arch.
🇩🇿 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
Numidian to Byzantine (4th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Christian
Hercules city Thibilis.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Numidian to Byzantine (5th c BCE-7th c CE; peak 2nd-3rd c CE) · Numidian / Roman / Byzantine
Twin theatre city Khamissa.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Archaeological wonder
Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) · Roman
Fort Howe Archaeological Complex in Tassili n'Ajjer, Algeria is a Roman (300 BCE–500 CE) archaeological wonder attributed to Roman culture.
🇩🇿 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
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),…