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, dating to the 3rd-5th century AD. The circular stone structure measures nearly 23 metres in diameter and 4 metres high, containing 11 chambers. First opened by Byron Khun de Prorok in 1925, excavators found a female skeleton adorned with seven silver bracelets on one arm and seven gold on the other, along with beads of turquoise, garnet, and amazonite. The tomb is attributed to Tin Hinan ('she of the tents'), revered as the ancestral mother of the Tuareg people.