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Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie (Tunisia)

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The Royal Mausoleums of Numidia, Mauretania and pre-Islamic funerary monuments show the exchanges of influence between the native Maghreb civilization and the Phoenician-Punic civilization or the Hellenistic-Egyptian ones. The proposal comprises a series of 5 examples of funerary architecture across Tunisia. The Numidian civilization covers a historical period from the end of the 2nd millennium BC to the 2nd century AD.

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Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie, de la Maurétanie et les monuments funéraires pré-islamiques (Tunisia) (ID: 5684)
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On tentative list 2012 Site history
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First published: 28/05/22.

Svein Elias

Les Mausolées Royaux De Numidie (Tunisia)

Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie (Tunisia) (On tentative list)

Les Mausolées Royaux de Numidie (Tunisia) by Svein Elias

On our April tour of Tunisia, we wanted to visit several TWHS’, but there wasn’t time in our schedule to visit them all. Thus, we had to choose between the 16 of them. Visiting Djerba we visited the mausoleum of Henchir Bourgou as a part of the TWHS Djerba, unconsciously we also started our Nubian mausoleum journey. The community likes for this site is a 100%! Although it’s only four votes, still a 100% is overwhelming. There are 5 elements in this nomination, and we suspect the community judgement is based on only one element, the one in Dougga. We managed to visit four elements, and did they live up too the requirements and expectations of our community?

The mausoleum of Henchir Bourgou is a very disappointing visit (lower right picture). Visually it’s almost like a pile of rocks on slightly more visual base in then semi-desert landscape with a lot of garbage around. This one is not worth an inscription, not even as a part of this serial nomination

Northbound from Djerba we were going inland Tunisia and chose to visit two more locations before visiting Dougga. First of these two were the mausoleum in Makthar. Makthar is an archaeological area (with a small museum) and we just assumed the mausoleum was inside the archaeological area. The site would open at 8 a.m. but when we arrived around 9 a.m. the gate was closed and not as soul in sight. After circling the area, taking some …

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