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Heritage and archives

The custodians of memory.

Museums, manuscript libraries, rock-art plateaus, and antique cities — the institutional and material sites where the long Amazigh inheritance has been gathered, sheltered, and read.

Museums · 5

The dedicated institutional collections of Amazigh material culture, from Marrakesh to Las Palmas.

Living archives · 3

The manuscript-library cities of the trans-Saharan trade economy — the Saharan-Sahel libraries that have preserved the pre-modern Berber, Arabic, and Songhay textual record across the medieval and early-modern centuries.

Rock art and prehistoric sites · 2

The principal pre-Islamic, pre-Christian, pre-Phoenician sites of the Berber landscape: the rock-painting plateau of the Tassili and the legendary funerary monument of the Hoggar.

Roman-Berber and antique cities · 7

The principal antique-period archaeological cities of the Maghreb, where the Berber, Punic, Roman, and early-Christian strata are layered and where the principal Libyco-Berber inscriptions have been recovered.

See also

The trade-route geography that connected these sites across two thousand years of trans-Saharan commerce is mapped at the trade routes visualisation; the language varieties spoken at and around them, at the languages map; the long-arc chronology in which they were founded and abandoned, at the timeline and the longitudinal canvas.