🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Ghirza (Gerisa)
Roman to Islamic (1st–7th c; peak 3rd–4th c) · Libyan (Nasamones) / Roman / Byzantine
Desert frontier with 40 tower temple-tombs, foggara dams and Libyan relief ethnography 150 km inland.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Bu Njem (Gholaia)
Severan Roman (201–259 CE) · Roman
201 CE polygonal limes fort 138 m with 146 wax tablets and ostraca archive documenting Legio III vicus.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Fortress
Castellum Dimmidi
Roman Severan (198–238 CE) · Roman
Castellum Dimmidi (Messaad) is Rome's southernmost Algerian outpost, 350 km south of Algiers into true Sahara, a Severan isolated vexillation fort 40×40 m with corner bastions built 198 CE by Legio…
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Vescera (Biskra)
Roman to Byzantine (1st c. BCE–7th c. CE) · Roman (Numidia)
Limes military colony at Biskra oasis with camp and Triton mosaic.
🇱🇾 Libya · Ancient city
Boreum
Roman (Augustan–7th c. CE) · Roman (Tripolitania)
Syrtic frontier fort at Bu Grada lagoon terminus of limes road.
🇩🇿 Algeria · Ancient city
Rapidum (Sour Djouab / Masqueray)
Roman · Roman
Auxilia castra of Cohors II Sardorum on Auzia–Lemellef road controlling Tell–Plateaux pass. Fort 180×140 m with canabae, baths, Gordian III rebuild inscription.