Archaeological Sites in Algeria

Ancient City of Diana Veteranorum

Diana Veteranorum was an ancient Roman-Berber city in Algeria. It was located around 40 km northwest of Lambaesis and 85 km southwest of Cirta. Diana Veteranorum was founded in…

Djemila

Founded in the late 1st century AD, Djemila (ancient Cuicul) is a Roman city in Algeria's mountainous northeast renowned for its exceptional preservation. The site exemplifies a…

Historic Site Tipasa

Tipasa (c. 6th c. BC – 6th c. AD) began as a trading post on Algeria's central coast before Rome transformed it into a strategic colonial base for conquering Mauretania. The site…

Les Ruines

Identified with Tipasa, a coastal archaeological complex in northern Algeria, comprising Phoenician, Roman, early Christian, and Byzantine ruins. The earliest Phoenician tombs…

M'Daourouch

M'daourouch sits at the site of the ancient Berber-Roman town of Madauros in Numidia.

Negrine

Negrine is a town in Tebessa Province, northeastern Algeria, situated at 279 m elevation on the site of ancient Casae Nigrae (also known as Nigrenses Maiores), a settlement of…

Roman Ruins of Djemila

Djémila (ancient Cuicul) is a Roman ruins site in northern Algeria, featuring one of North Africa's best-preserved Roman urban complexes. Built on a mountain slope, the site…

Roman Ruins of Tébessa

Tebessa (ancient Theveste) is a historic city in eastern Algeria founded during the Roman era in the 1st century AD, situated at 838 metres elevation between the Aures massif and…

Roman Ruins Timgad

Timgad (Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi) was founded in 100 AD by Emperor Trajan as a military colony for retired soldiers, located about 35 km east of Batna in Algeria.…

Ruins of Hippo (Hippo Regius)

Ancient city near modern Annaba in northeastern Algeria, first settled by Phoenicians from Tyre around the 12th century BC. Became a major Roman city in North Africa, home to St.…

Ruins of Ténès

Ancient Mediterranean port in northern Algeria built on the site of Phoenician and Roman colonies known as Cartennae. Founded as a Phoenician port in or before the 8th century BC,…

Saldae (Béjaïa)

Saldae was a Roman veteran colony founded by Augustus in 27-26 BC in Mauretania Caesariensis, at modern Bejaia in eastern Algeria. The town occupied two mountain spurs separated…

Siga

Siga was a Berber, Phoenician, and Roman port city located near present-day Aïn Témouchent in Algeria. During the Roman era, it functioned as a settlement in western Mauretania…

Site de Tiklat

The Site de Tiklat is located near El Kseur in Bejaia Province, Algeria, and corresponds to the ancient Roman colony of Tubusuctu. Archaeological remains include well-preserved…

Thibilis

Thibilis was a Roman and Byzantine era town in what was Numidia but is today northeast Algeria. The site has extensive Roman and Byzantine ruins. The numerous Latin inscriptions…

Tiddis Ruins

Tiddis was an ancient settlement in Numidia, in what is now Constantine Province in eastern Algeria. It lies above the gorges of the Rhumel, about 16 kilometres northwest of…

Jedars

Jedars are thirteen Berber mausoleums located south of Tiaret city in Algeria. The pre-Islamic tombs date from late antiquity. The tombs are situated on the tops of two hills in…

Remains of Roknia

The Remains of Roknia are a megalithic necropolis in Guelma Province, northeastern Algeria, featuring over 3,000 dolmens. These ancient burial structures represent one of North…

Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania

The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a funerary monument located on the road between Cherchell and Algiers, in Tipaza Province, Algeria. The Royal Mausoleum of Mauretania is a…

Madghacen

Medracen, also spelled Madghacen, is an ancient funerary monument located near Batna in Algeria. It has been identified as a royal mausoleum built by the Berber Numidian Kingdom.…

Massinissa Mausoleum

The Soumaâ du Khroub, also called the royal Numidian mausoleum of El Khroub and nicknamed the Tomb of Massinissa, is a Numidian funerary monument at El Khroub in the wilaya of…

Tombeau de Tin Hinan

The Tomb of Tin Hinan is a monumental Berber mausoleum on a hilltop near the oasis of Abalessa in the Hoggar Mountains, southern Algeria. First opened by Byron Khun de Prorok in…

Aqueduc Maurétanien de Cherchell

The Cherchell aqueduct supplied water to Caesarea Mauretaniae, capital of Roman Mauretania, in modern Algeria. Built in the 1st century AD, likely during the reign of King Juba…

Aqueduc Romain

The Roman aqueduct of Constantine (ancient Cirta) in Algeria was built to supply water to the city, once capital of the Numidian kingdom and later a major center of Roman North…

Roman Bridge of Mina, Relizane

A ruined Roman bridge spanning the Oued Mina at the western entrance to Relizane, Algeria. Dating to the 1st century AD, it served the ancient Roman settlement of Mina in the…

The Roman Bridge (Elguentra)

Gemellae Fortress Roman

Gemellae was a Roman fort and associated camp on the fringe of the Sahara Desert in what is today part of Algeria. It is now an archaeological site, 25 km south and 19 km west of…

Tazoult (Lambaesis)

Lambaesis (modern Tazoult) is a Roman archaeological site in northeastern Algeria, 11 km southeast of Batna. Established as the permanent base of Legio III Augusta under Emperor…

Hammam Essalihine

Hammam Essalihine is an ancient Roman thermal bath complex situated in the Aurès Mountains of northeastern Algeria, approximately 7 kilometers from Khenchela in El Hamma District.…

La basilique Sainte-Crispine

The Tébessa Basilica is a Late Roman archeological site located in the eastern Algerian city of Theveste, which is known today as Tébessa. It is one of the largest remains of…

Rapidum

Rapidum was a Roman settlement and fort located in Mauretania Caesariensis, nearly 100 km south of Icosium (Algiers). Soon under Hadrian near the fort grew up a civilian…

Trajan's Arch

The Arch of Trajan is a Roman triumphal arch located in the city of Timgad, near Batna. The three vaulted arch composed the western gate of the city, at the beginning of the…

Ksar el Kaoua

Ksar el Kaoua is a Roman castle situated in the ancient Roman province of Mauritania Caesarea. The site, located approximately 12 kilometers north of Ammi Moussa in the Wilaya of…

Ksar Lalla Fatma

Ksar Lalla Fatma is a villa complex in northeastern Algeria, located within a cork oak forest near Oued Djenane in the Commune of El-Ayoun, wilaya of El-Tarf.

Théâtre Romain Khmissa (Ancient Thubursicum, Roman Theatre)

Khemissa, ancient Thubursicum Numidarum, is a 65-hectare Roman and Byzantine archaeological site in northeastern Algeria's Souk Ahras Province. Originally a Berber Numidian…