This building in Cherchell is known as the “Tomb of the Christian”. A denomination that is completely false since the mausoleum is not Christian.
It belonged to king Juba Il and his wife Cleopatra Selene, the grandchild of queen Cleopatra of Egypt. The French, the dishonest ones, erased all traces of all that our people had accomplished just by making believe that the domination of Rome was a military domination of the legion. Which is entirely false. The Roman Empire was a cultural empire, an idea of civilization carried by intellectuals like our good Juba Il, the most learned of kings.
But what is most unfortunate is the Kabyles themselves who are thus stripped of their own history by adopting the French terminology, by saying “Roman” ruins, even for ruins of cities that were built thousands of years before the very existence of Roman civilization.
Covered alleyways of Ait Rehouna older than five thousand years before Jesus chris and are named Roman ruins
The mausoleum under the Ottoman and French occupation
In 1555, the Pasha of Algiers, Salah Rais, a Turkish governor , gave orders to pull down the mausoleum hoping to find a treasure to steal. After large black wasps swarmed out and stung some of the workers to death, the effort was abandoned. At the end of the 18th century, Baba Mahommed tried in vain to destroy the monument with artillery.
Later, when the French occupied Algeria the monument was used by the French Navy for target practice.
The entrance is under one of the false doors (west side).
The architecture is similar to that of the medghasen tomb. Circular shape with stacked stones without mortar. This technique is called Bazina (avazin in Kabyle).
It is a technique very controlled by the Kabyle. Just see Tighremt (stone walls without mortar).
Aghrum, unleavened bread (semolina without binder) also derives from this word.
The historical monuments built by our ancestors demonstrate this mastery of architecture without mortar. The Romans only copied us.
Render to Caesar what is Caesar. The ruins that exist in Kabylia are Kabylian ruins.
myez
Je suis entièrement d’accord avec vous …La vérité historique de la grandiose histoire des nord africains atlantes et de leurs descendants à l’origine des écritures et de nombreuses civilisations est occultée, falsifiée, perverties pour le compte d’envahisseurs imaginaires pour faire croire à la supériorité étrangère dont ils sont les civilisateurs .C’est impossible qu’un autre peuple puisse les dominer vue l’antériorité ancestrale, la supériorité des savoirs dont ils sont les dépositaires. Rome n’est rien d’autre qu’une fondation punique dont le terme LATIUM confirme les origines. La chrétienté porteuse de savoir malgré ses crimes témoigne que ce n’est que depuis la christianisation et la latinisation que l’occident à pu atteindre la lumière dont baigné l’Afrique des millénaires avant. Hélas des trahisons et des manœuvres des goths et sarrasins africains arianistes en collaboration avec l’église vaticane vers le IV/Vl eme siècle pour signer la mort du christianisme latin en Afrique au profit de l’Europe en construction et finira par la christianisation 300 ans après avec l’aide des chrétiens nord africains.
Kaci
It is true that the French are those who have ethnicized the way of life of savages. During antiquity, the Arabic word was an insult. This is how a Roman emperor was called “Philip the Arab”
myez
*depuis la synchronisation..
Lire depuis la christinianisation
Roger
It appears that Latin was the language of North Africa. It was a popular language, a language of the people. In Rome, this language was only used by the elite. The question then arises: where did this elite come from?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_Romance
Atd-98
Cherchell – Caesarea of Mauritania (Algeria).
The city was one of the most beautiful in North Africa and the Mediterranean. Governed by King Juba II and his wife Cleopatra Selene II, sometimes called Cleopatra VIII. Then by their son Ptolemy, son of Cleopatra Selene II and grandson of the Pharaoh of Egypt Ptolemy XII, who took power and became the new King of Cherchell, after the death of his father Juba II…
Initially known as Iol, it was renamed Caesarea under the Berber king Juba II, whose capital it was. It was then one of the most important cities on the western coast of ancient North Africa.
From 40 AD, it was the capital of the Roman province of Mauretania Caesarea, which stretched as far as the Atlantic Ocean.
Juba II turned his capital into a major city, surrounded by a wall and designed according to the principles of Hellenistic-Roman town planning. Its statues of Hellenistic type were of exceptional quality, and the mosaics in its houses – which were built later – reflected the opulence of the ruling classes. Ruins of Roman temples and monuments bear witness to this period.
Queen Cleopatra Selene II exerted a certain influence on Juba II’s policies, particularly with regard to the arts, literature and architecture. She turned their capital Caesarea, now Cherchell in Algeria, into a vast, prosperous city with monuments worthy of the great capitals of the ancient world at the time.
Thanks to his influence, the kingdom of Mauretania (which covered Algeria and part of what is now Morocco) prospered through its trade throughout the Mediterranean. Under his reign, the capital Cæsaria reached its apogee, thanks in particular to the production and trade of purple and garum. Monumental buildings were widely developed, revealing a rich architecture adorned with sumptuous sculptures and a style whose rare eclecticism draws on Ptolemaic sources from Pharaonic and Greco-Roman Egypt.
The city built by Juba II was surrounded by a wall: a continuous wall 4,460 m long, perhaps supplemented by a sea wall, surrounded 370 ha. Only the northern part of the enclosed area, i.e. the coastal plateau that was 400 m to 500 m wide at the time, was actually built on. The southern rampart was built at an altitude of around 200 m on the edge of the plateau overlooking the city, and a whole amphitheatre of hills was included in the enclosure. Caesarea was endowed by its king with the public buildings that became characteristic of Roman cities. Along with the theatre at Utica, then the capital of the province of Africa, Caesarea’s theatre is the oldest in North Africa and one of the oldest in the western Mediterranean; it was built at the same time as the theatre of Marcellus in Rome. Its amphitheatre was built according to a particular plan. The amphitheatre was built according to a particular plan, driven by the desire to have a building large enough to stage wild animal fights or gladiatorial groups, and by the early date of its construction.