Arco de triunfo romano -Volubis (Marruecos)

The Arch of Caracalla at Volubilis (Marruecos)

Bronze trophy, 2.44 m high and weighing 240 kg, found in the forum of Hippo Regius (Annaba, Algeria). It was set up perhaps after the Battle of Thapsus (46 BCE) and the suicides of Metellus Scipio, Cato, and Juba I, king of #Numidia.

Images on the reverse of two 1969 Tunisian commemorative coins. Left: #Hannibal leads his army to victory at Cannae. Right: #Jugurtha weighs a corrupted she-wolf of Rome against the Numidian horse and date palm. #classicsreception #northafrica

Statue of Buluggin (or Bologhine) ibn Ziri (died 984), who built #Algiers on the ruins of the Punic and then Roman city of #Icosium. The infamous Serkadji (formerly Barberousse) Prison in the background, built by the French on Ottoman fortifications above the Casbah.

General Solomon built these fortifications in #Madauros (M'Daourouch, Algeria) in the latter 530s CE as part of the #Byzantine conquest of North Africa.

Two votive stelae dedicated to Saturn. 2nd-4th c. CE. Sitifis (Sétif, Algeria).

The so-called new temple in #Tipasa, Mauretania Caesariensis, about 65 km west of Algiers, Algeria. Built in the late 2nd/early 3rd century CE, part was subsequently incorporated into a church and the rest a Byzantine market.

Built in 686 (and renovated several times since then), the Sidi Okba Mosque just east of #Biskra is the oldest mosque in Algeria. It was established as the mausoleum of Uqba ibn Nafi, the Rashidun and then Umayyad general who led the conquest of the Maghreb.

Ruins of traditional #Chaoui mud brick buildings in Sidi Okba, Algeria.

The palace of Ahmed Bey in Constantine, Algeria, completed in 1835, two years before Constantine fell to the French. Painted along the walls on the ground floor is a map of Bey’s travels to Egypt, Istanbul, and the Hejaz.

Chasing a police escort on the lonely N16 somewhere between M'Daourouch (Madauros) and Tébessa (Theveste), Algeria.

Overlooking ancient Hippo Regius. The Mediterranean in the distance. #Annaba, Algeria.

Two 6th c. BCE grinning masks from #Carthage practicing appropriate social distancing. Bardo National Museum, Tunis.

Crabby Oceanus (left), Amphitrite and Neptune (top right), and two Nereids on sea horses (bottom right). 2nd-3rd c. CE #mosaic from Utica. Bardo National Museum, Tunis, Tunisia.