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Today, many artefacts found at Volubilis can be seen on display in the Rabat Archaeological Museum. UNESCO listed Volubilis as a World Heritage Site in 1997. In the 1980s, the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) organised three conferences to assess possible nominations to the World Heritage List for sites in North Africa.
Archaeological site of Volubilis: Fès-Meknès: 1997 836bis; ii, iii, iv, vi (cultural) Volubilis was founded in the 3rd century BCE as the capital of Mauretania. It was then an important Roman outpost and in the 8th century briefly the capital of the Idrisid dynasty. Afterwards, the site was not occupied for nearly a thousand years.
Archaeological Site of Volubilis: Meknes, Morocco: Cultural: (ii), (iii), (iv), (vi) 42 (100) 1997: The important Roman outpost of Volubilis was founded in the 3rd century BCE to become the capital of Mauretania. It contained many buildings, the remains of which have survived extensively to this day.
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Divers uncovered several ancient Roman artifacts off the coast of Croatia. The discoveries were made during an expedition near Host — a small Croatian island in the Adriatic Sea — in September ...
Today, the site of Chellah has been converted to a garden and tourist attraction. It is part of the metropolitan area of Rabat. The site, as part of historic Rabat, was listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site in 2012. [7] It's also notable for hosting a large colony of storks, who nest in the trees as well as on the minaret of the ruined zawiya.
C. Michael Hogan, Volubilis, The Megalithic Portal, ed. Andy Burnham (2007) Barnaby Rogerson (2000} Marrakesh, Fez and Rabat , New Holland Publishers, 290 pages ISBN 1-86011-973-5 This article about a building or structure in Morocco is a stub .