Tunisia - The Royal Mausoleums of Numidia, Mauretania and pre-Islamic funerary monuments

Civilization of the indigenous peoples of the ancient Maghreb, the Numidian civilization has left many archaeological evidence consisting essentially of megalithic monuments and what the specialists called the "royal type" .. The first type consists of hundreds monumental megalithic tombs of great architectural originality, mostly divided into large necropolises, the most important of which are those of Ellès (Ulules), Hammam Zouakra (Thigibba) and Makthar (Mactaris) in the Tunisian High-Tell, to which It is worth adding the Numidian burial monuments of Chimtou (Simitthus) in the Middle Valley of the Majrada. As for the second type, it is represented by monuments such as the Numidian mausoleums of Dougga (Thugga) and Henchir Bourgou on the island of Djerba.