🇲🇷 Mauritania · Submerged site
Kumbi Saleh – Ghana Empire Harbour City, Mauritania
Ghana to Almoravid (c. 500–1200 CE) · Soninke Ghana / Almoravid / Wagadu
Ghana Empire caravan harbour 300×200 m dune-sealed at Kumbi Saleh – moated stone town 15 ha.
🇲🇷 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.
🇲🇷 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 · 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 · Ancient city
Ksar el Barka
Ksar el Barka (Arabic: قصر البركة, Fula: Laaci-Wendu) is a ruined town in Mauritania.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh South Ridge (Ghana Empire Capital Annex)
Ghana Empire (c. 700–1240 CE; South Ridge 10th–12th c) · Soninke (Wagadou Ghana Empire) / Berber Almoravid
Southern craft suburb of fabled Ghana capital, with iron bloomery row and bead workshops 35 km south of central mounds, showing Ghana's industrial hinterland; separate from UNESCO...
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Tegdaoust (Aoudaghost) West Ksar
Aoudaghost (c. 500–1400 CE; Berber–Ghanaian citadel) · Berber (Sanhaja) / Soninke Ghanaian conquest 1055
Berber ksar on Aoukar dune edge, Aoudaghost West preserves citadel, mosque and cavern granaries that stored caravan millet, described by al-Bakri and Ibn Hawqal; Ghana 1055 seizure...
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Tumulus
Cessa Mound — Ancillary Embankment North (Mauretania)
Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) · Hallstatt / Early Iron Age
Cessa Mound — Ancillary Embankment North (Mauretania) in Adrar, Chinguetti, Cessa, Mauritania is a Early Bronze Age to Iron Age (2500–500 BCE) tumulus attr…
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Northern Annex
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Northern Annex in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Eastern Outlier
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Eastern Outlier in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Western Terrace
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Western Terrace in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Southern Extension
Medieval (800-1200 CE) · Ghana Empire
Koumbi Saleh Market Enclosure East Wall Annex — Southern Extension in Hodh Ech Chargui, Nema, Mauritania is a Medieval (800-1200 CE) ancient city attributed to Ghana Empire.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Temple complex
Koumbi Saleh Mosque South Wall
Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional · Classical
Koumbi Saleh Mosque South Wall in Hodh Ech Chargui, Koumbi Saleh, Mauritania is a Classical Antiquity (600 BCE–200 CE) or regional temple complex attributed to Classical.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient village
Akjoujt (Agueijit)
Chalcolithic to Early Iron Age (1800–500 BCE) · Pre-Mauritanian / early Berber / unknown Saharan smiths
West Africa's earliest copper-mining landscape Akjoujt — 1,000 tons slag from 1500 BCE.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Oualata Painted House Courtyard 3
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Oualata Painted House Courtyard 3 in Hodh Ech Chargui, Oualata, Mauritania is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Tegdaoust Aoudaghost Stone Town House C15
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tegdaoust Aoudaghost Stone Town House C15 in Hodh El Gharbi, Aoudaghost, Mauritania is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Tichitt Stone Village Sector W13
Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) · Bronze Age
Tichitt Stone Village Sector W13 in Tagant, Tichitt, Mauritania is a Bronze Age (3000–1200 BCE) ancient city attributed to Bronze Age.
🇲🇷 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 · Ancient city
Walata — Medieval Ksar and Manuscript City
Ghana to Mali to Songhai medieval (11th c. CE foundation; 14th c. peak Ibn Battuta 1352) · Soninke → Berber → Mali Empire caravan scholars
Walata occupied 1000–, Ibn Battuta 1352, manuscript ksar.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Koumbi Saleh — Ghana Empire Capital Kumbi
Ghana Empire (300–1240 CE peak 800–1070 CE Wattasi/Awdaghust description) · Soninke Ghana (Awdaghust) → Wagadu
Koumbi Saleh excavated by Bonnel de Mézières 1914 and Berthier 1970s, Ghana capital 800–1240.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Azougui — Almoravid Capital on Adrar Plateau
Ghana terminal to Almoravid capital (11th c. CE Almoravid capital 1050–1147) · Sanhaja Berber Almoravid (Ibn Yasin)
Azougui excavated by de Moraes Farias 1970s, Almoravid birthplace 1053, stone city 10 ha.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Rock art
Adrar Bous (Adrar Bou Achchouch?? corrected: Adrar des Ifoghas sector)
Neolithic to Pastoral (6000–1000 BCE) · Neolithic pastoralists / Libyco-Berber
Adrar plateau quartzite guelb rock engravings west of Atar with Neolithic interdune settlement.
🇲🇷 Mauritania · Ancient city
Awdaghust — Ghana-Berbér Caravan Town Telegraph
Ghana Empire satellite (800–1350 CE peak Awdaghust near Al Bakri) · Sanhaja Berber → Ghana Empire → Almoravid
Tegdaoust excavated by Robert & Mauny 1960–70, Ghana southern frontier caravan town 800–1350.