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Timgad (Arabic: تيمقاد, romanized: Tīmqād, known as Marciana Traiana Thamugadi) was a Roman city in the Aurès Mountains of Algeria. It was founded by the Roman Emperor Trajan around 100 AD. The full name of the city was Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi .
The city's inhabitants, possibly fearing persecution, fled underground and created an entire world. As many as 60,000 people may have lived in the city. Mervan Yavuz shows figures carved inside ...
The Arch of Trajan is a Roman triumphal arch located in the city of Timgad (ancient Thamugadi), near Batna, Algeria. It was built between the later 2nd century and the early 3rd century. The three vaulted arch composed the western gate of the city, at the beginning of the Decumanus Maximus and the end of the road coming from Lambaesis.
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This mining city was once home to 5,000 people before becoming completely abandoned nearly one hundred years later.
The city remained with a Roman garrison until the sixth century and now is part of metropolitan Rabat. Thamugadi (Timgad in Algeria): Timgad was founded by Trajan in 100 AD as "Colonia Marciana Ulpia Traiana Thamugadi" Thysdrus (El Djem in Tunisia): Thysdrus was made "colonia" in 244 AD by Gordian III
Scientists now have a clearer picture of Camp Century, an abandoned U.S. military base long hidden under the ice in Greenland, thanks to a NASA research team's good luck.
Ojuela, a mining town near Durango City, was abandoned when the area's ore supply was exhausted. Real de Catorce was once a flourishing silver mining town in northern Mexico. Its dramatic landscapes and buildings have been used by Hollywood for movies such as The Mexican (2001) with Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts. Recent efforts to adapt the town ...