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Numidia was the ancient kingdom of the Numidians in northwest Africa, ... Some examples of these structures are the mausoleum of Thugga, ...
Madghacen (Berber languages: imedɣasen), also spelled Medracen or Medghassen or Medrassen or Madghis is a royal mausoleum-temple of the Berber Numidian Kings which stands near Batna city in Aurasius Mons in Numidia, Algeria.
The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a funerary monument located on the road between Cherchell and Algiers, in Tipaza Province, Algeria.. The mausoleum is the tomb where the Numidian Berber King Juba II (son of Juba I of Numidia) and the Queen Cleopatra Selene II, sovereigns of Numidia and Mauretania Caesariensis, were allegedly buried.
The tomb of Masinissa above (in El Khroub, Algeria), and the completely restored Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga (near Téboursouk, Tunisia), which may be a cenotaph for him, below. With Roman backing, Masinissa established his own kingdom of Numidia , west of Carthage, with Cirta — present day Constantine — as its capital city.
The Libyco-Punic Mausoleum of Dougga (Mausoleum of Atban) is an ancient mausoleum located in Dougga, Tunisia. It is one of three examples of the royal architecture of Numidia , which is in a good state of preservation and dates to the second century BC.
Statue of Syphax, a numidian king Numidia of Syphax and Gaïa before the unification. The Numidians were the Berber [1] population of Numidia (present-day Algeria). [2] The Numidians were originally a semi-nomadic people, they migrated frequently as nomads usually do but during certain seasons of the year, they would return to the same camp. [3]
The Mausoleum of Ateban is one of the very rare examples of royal Numidian architecture. There is another in Sabratha in Libya. Some authors believe that there is a link with the funeral architecture in Anatolia and the necropoleis in Alexandria from the 3rd and 2nd century BC. [46] This tomb is 21 m (69 ft) tall and was built in the 2nd ...
His father Juba II was the son of King Juba I of Numidia, who was descended from the Berbers of North Africa and was an ally to the Roman Triumvir Pompey. His mother Cleopatra Selene II was the daughter of the Ptolemaic Greek Queen Cleopatra VII of Egypt and the Roman Triumvir Mark Antony .