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 Constantine, Algeria [1]. The square-plan tower mausoleum rises 30 metres, and analysis of the objects found in it dates the monument to the second half of the 2nd century BC [1]. A document of the Cirta National Museum records excavations by French archaeologists between 1915 and 1916 that make a mixed Greco-Punic style of the stones likely [1]. The tomb held two superimposed compartments separated by slabs and contained three intact funerary urns, as well as fragments of a sword, a helmet, a tunic, a coat of mail and bones [1]. The finds from the tomb are exhibited in the Cirta National Museum [1]. Since 2002 the monument has stood on the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list under the Royal Mausoleums of Numidia and Mauretania [1].